Question 1: How does changing schools so many times affect Natasha?"
Question 2: Look at some of the songs from the book, and explain how they help you understand the story.
Question 3: In chapter 9, why does Natasha try "to reconstruct the events of May 1985" (119)?
Question 4: Why do you think Trethewey delays providing her mother's journal until chapter 10'?
Question 5: Discuss the police report from chapter 11 and the transcript from chapter 12.
Question 6: After you finish the book, review the italicized beginning, and comment on the images it contains. How does it help you understand the rest of the book?
Question 7: Geography is fate" (203'). Discuss.