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BOOKCLUBS
Questions to Generate Discussion:
- Discuss the theme of ‘loss’ in the stories of Simon Van Booy.
- “Every moment is a beginning and an end.” Discuss this quote from The Still But Falling World in terms of your own life and the lives of the main characters in the story.
- Discuss how Van Booy’s characters are given second chances, even after suffering through painful epiphanies and devastating losses.
- Why do love and suffering often go together in the stories of Simon Van Booy?
- “For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.” Discuss this quote from Everything is a Beautiful Trick.
- Discuss the relationship between adults and children in the stories of Simon Van Booy.
- “All arms are envoys of God.” Explore the theme of spirituality and religion in Distant Ships and other stories in the collection.
- “Sometimes, they all flicker to life at the same time, as if together they can hold off darkness.” What does this quote mean to you? Think about the theme of human companionship in Little Birds and other stories.
- How does the medium of the short story differ from other storytelling mediums such as the novella and the novel?
- Van Booy’s characters are often from very different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, but do they have anything in common?
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