Simultaneous
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Where did you do most of your reading of this one, and did the place you read it change how it landed for you?
Was there a moment early on where you thought, oh, I am going to be kept company by this book? What was it?
This is a story about two things being true at once. When in your own life have you felt like you were living in two places or two versions of yourself at the same time?
Which small, ordinary detail in the book (a room, an object, a habit, a bit of weather) stayed warm in your memory after you put it down?
Heisserer wrote Arrival, which treats time as something soft rather than a straight line. Did reading this book make time feel gentler or more frightening to you?
Who did you want to feed, hug, or hand a blanket to while reading, and what would you have said to them?
Without giving anything away, was there a passage that made your chest tighten or your eyes sting? Read us a line or two and tell us what it touched in you.
By the time you closed the book, did it leave you feeling held or feeling restless? Sit with that for a second before you answer, and tell us what in your own life that feeling belongs to.