Mazywood

Settle in with your mug first. Where did you do most of your reading of this one, and did you ever have to put it down and go turn on a light?

Is there a house or cabin in your family, real or long gone, that you can still walk through in your head? Tell us one room.

Due writes the California mountains as beautiful and watchful at the same time. Which passages made you want to be there, and which made you glad you were on your couch?

This is a book about a grandmother who was famous to the world and something else entirely to her family. Who in your life has a public version and a private version, and which one do you miss more?

Inherited rage sits at the center of this story. Was there a moment where a character's anger felt comforting to you rather than frightening, like someone finally saying the thing out loud?

Coming back to a place that raised you can feel like being held or being caught. Which did the return feel like to you emotionally, and did that change as you read?

By the last stretch of the book, what did you find yourself wanting for this family, not predicting, just wanting? Did the book let you keep wanting it?

Due has said horror lets us look at real American history sideways. After finishing, what old wound did this story leave you sitting with, and did the book feel like it offered any tenderness alongside it?