The
Lightkeeper’s Daughters
By Jean
E. Pendziwol
(Tansley Reads Rating: 73%)
Icebreaker
Tell of one
remarkable experience you had as a child.
Questions
1. Why was Charlie hiding the journals?
2. On Pg. 292 Elizabeth tells Morgan “I know who I am. I’ve known all along.” “I am the life I lived. I am Elizabeth.” What do you think it means to be a twin?
3. Why did Elizabeth give her whole life to
Emily?
4. One of Emily’s pictures/paintings was named
“Sisters in Flight”. Why do you think it
was called this?
5. On page 122 Elizabeth
says “Emily … she was a spirit, haunted by the Lake, lingering between
two-worlds, fragile and vulnerable.” So many events could have led to Emily
being haunted by the Lake – which one resonates for you?
b.) Who or what is the wolf that haunts Emily and
Elizabeth?
6. Morgan was sent to Boreal Retirement Home
through the restorative justice program.
What was restored there?
7. What do you think made Morgan “see the light”
as far as Derrick was concerned? Why did
she walk away from him?
8. On page 81 Marty and Elizabeth are discussing
art/paintings and Marty says “Isn’t it a shame that artistic genius hovers so
near insanity.” Elizabeth replies, “Does
it require a tortured soul, Marty to capture beauty? To see and speak truth?” And then there is a mental dialogue she has
where she says “Who decides when they’ve crossed from tortured to talent, to be
embraced and immortalized? …… Genius and
insanity. Which brings the other?” Was she thinking of Emily? Or Morgan?
Or of someone else?
9. What importance, if any, does Lil’s native
heritage play in the story’s plot?
10. Why did the author begin and end the story
with Arnie Richardson?
11. There were numerous sub plots/twists in the
story. Was there one that surprised you and added to your enjoyment of, or
intrigue with, the book, or was there one that could have been left out?
12. Quick round: What did you
think of the book? Is there anything you want to discuss that we missed?
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