Say Nothing
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Grab your mug and tell us: where were you when you read most of this one, and did you need a blanket and a cup of something afterward?
Before tonight, what did the phrase 'the Troubles' mean to you, if anything? No wrong answers, we are all starting from different places.
This is a book about people who kept quiet for decades. Is there a family story in your own life that only came out years later, or one you suspect is still sitting there unspoken?
Keefe writes about neighborhoods where everyone knew everyone. Did any of that closeness feel warm and familiar to you, even knowing what it cost, and what did it remind you of?
Some passages probably made you want to put the book down for a minute. Which one did that to you, and what did you do to shake it off?
The book asks what a community owes to a family still missing someone. What did that stir up in you about grief you have watched from the outside?
Without giving anything away, whose choices did you find yourself quietly forgiving as you read, and did that surprise you about yourself?
By the last stretch, how had your feelings about loyalty shifted? Take your time, and feel free to be uncertain out loud here.