Confronting America
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Before we talk about the book at all: what is the one house rule you grew up with that you still quietly follow today?
Where did you do most of your reading for this one, and did the setting (couch, car line, break room) change how the tone landed for you?
The book spends real time on family. Which relative's voice did you hear in your head while you were reading, and was that comforting or complicated?
On the chapters about school and education: what is a teacher or classroom moment from your own life that this book gently pulled back up?
The book treats work as something close to a moral habit. Tell us about a job, however small, that made you feel genuinely useful.
Faith and religion come up throughout. Without anyone needing to state a position, what does the word comfort mean to you in that part of your life?
Somewhere in this book you almost certainly disagreed, and somewhere you nodded. Sitting here with a warm drink, what did that mix feel like, and did any of it soften on reflection?
Opinion books are really invitations to be persuaded. Looking back across the whole thing, was there one page that made you want to call someone you love and talk it over?