The Great Wherever
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Before we say a word about the book: what is the one dish that means home to you, and who made it?
Where did you do most of your reading for this one, and did the book make you want to call someone?
Sanders is so good at the feeling of walking back into a family space after being away. What did that stir up in you, if anything?
Which small moment in this book did you find yourself sitting with for a minute before turning the page, and what made it land?
The title points toward somewhere out there, beyond the familiar. What was your own "great wherever" at some point, the place or life you imagined leaving for?
When a relative in this book was difficult, did you find yourself taking sides or softening toward them? What does that say about how you handle your own people?
By the time you closed the book, did you feel more forgiving of the characters than when you started? Where did that shift happen for you?
Sanders lets a lot go unsaid between family members. Thinking across the whole book, what did the silences feel like to you, protective, lonely, or something warmer, and does that match the silences in your own family?