Regime Change
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Settle in with your warm drink and tell us: where were you, and how were you feeling, during one of the moments this book revisits?
Was there a page that made you set the book down, take a breath, and reach for another cup of tea? What was it?
The book lives in a world of constant news. When headlines feel heavy, what small comfort or ritual helps you steady yourself? Did reading this change that at all?
Haberman and Swan write with a reporter's calm even about chaotic events. Did that steady voice comfort you, or did you crave more warmth? How did it make you feel to be walked through it slowly?
Which person or moment in these pages stirred the most tenderness or empathy in you, even unexpectedly?
So much of this story is about people under pressure. When you feel that kind of pressure, who or what do you lean on? Did any relationship in the book remind you of that?
Without giving anything away, how did the overall arc of this year leave you feeling as you closed the book: unsettled, hopeful, thoughtful, or something gentler? What do you think you will carry with you?
Reading two insiders recount recent history can shift how we hold our own memories of it. Did anything here soften, complicate, or comfort the way you remember living through this time?