Reading Group Questions

1) Andy sees Cissy as always so in control, emotionally and otherwise. What new side(s) of her mother does she see when Cissy is grieving over her lost friends?

2) Do you think Andy believes her mother's really lost her mind when Cissy decides to "investigate" her friends' deaths?

3) How do the events that transpire in the book bring mother and daughter closer together?

4) Are there more mother-daughter ties running through the story than just Cissy and Andy? What is the unifying theme?

5) Does Andy come to better understand her mother as a whole person by the book's end? Does she realize, too, that life doesn't end after 40?