The Mother-in-Law Book Club
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Before we talk about Andi at all: what made you join a book club in the first place, and did you get what you came for?
Which moment in the Durham book club scenes made you want to pull up a chair and stay, and what was it about that room that felt inviting?
Andi has made a life out of leaving before anywhere can claim her. Was there a season when you lived like that, and what did it feel like to read about someone else doing it?
Mother-in-law relationships usually show up in fiction as a punchline. How did it feel to read one written with this much tenderness, and did it soften anything you carry about your own family-by-marriage?
The novel is very much set in Durham, with its particular Southern warmth. Which small details of place comforted you most, and what place does that for you?
The women in this club change Andi mostly by just continuing to show up. Who has quietly shown up for you like that, and did you notice it at the time?
Andi starts the book certain about what she wants. As that certainty loosens, what did you find yourself hoping for her, and did your hope have more to do with her or with you?
Without giving anything away: what did this book leave you wanting to do differently in your own life, even in some very small way?