Killers of the Flower Moon

Before you opened the book, had you ever heard of the Osage Nation or the oil boom on their land? What was it like to learn about it for the first time, and who did you want to tell about it?

Grann moves between different people's points of view. Whose chapters did you find yourself settling into most comfortably, almost relieved to be back with them?

This is a book about a family that keeps gathering, keeps showing up for each other, through unimaginable loss. Was there a moment of that togetherness that warmed you, even in the middle of such a hard story?

The Osage lived under a guardianship system that put strangers in charge of their own money. How did it feel to read about adults being treated as if they could not be trusted with their own lives, and did it stir up anything personal for you about being managed or underestimated?

Grann writes about a place where neighbors, doctors, and lawmen were all woven together. Did the book change how you think about the small towns or tight communities you have lived in, for better or worse?

Mollie Burkhart's steadiness is often what readers hold onto. What did her presence in the book give you, and was there a woman in your own life she brought to mind?

The last stretch of the book shifts from investigation to something more like remembrance, with Grann sitting with descendants and records. How did that change in temperature land on you emotionally, and what did you carry away from it?

When you closed the book, what did you feel you owed it: telling someone, reading more, visiting something, simply sitting quietly? Talk about what that impulse was and whether you have acted on it yet.