They Stole A City
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Settle in with your warm drink and tell us: which of the four families did you find yourself worrying about, the way you would a neighbor?
Was there a small, homey detail (a kitchen, a porch, a street corner) that made Wilmington feel like a real place you could walk into?
The book is deeply about home and belonging. When did a scene make you think about what home has meant in your own family's story?
Collins holds hard history with a lot of tenderness. Where did you feel her care for these people most, and how did that gentleness land on you?
So much here is about what gets passed down and what gets hushed. What did the book stir up about the stories your own family keeps or leaves unspoken?
Which moment moved you enough that you had to set the book down for a minute, and what were you feeling when you did?
Sitting with everything you learned, what will you carry out of tonight's conversation and keep thinking about this week?
By the last pages, how did living inside these four families change the way you understand the phrase in the title, that a city could be stolen?