Wait for Me

Before we get into it: where did you do most of your reading of this one, and did you find yourself wanting a blanket and something warm while you read?

Was there a sentence or an image early on that made you slow down and reread it? Share it, no analysis required, just the one that stuck to you.

This is a book about a place that holds onto people. Was there a moment where the mountain setting felt comforting to you, and a moment where it felt a little lonely?

Burns writes families who love each other mostly in actions rather than words. Who in your own life loves you that way, and did reading this make you feel seen or a little wistful?

Music runs through this story like warmth through a house. What song or sound carries that same feeling of home for you?

There is so much longing in these pages. Did the book leave you feeling tender, restless, held, or something harder to name? Say the feeling out loud, even if it is messy.

By the last stretch of the book, did you feel the characters had been given something like grace? Describe how you felt closing the book rather than what happened in it.

Burns seems interested in what we inherit without choosing it, for better and worse. Looking back across the whole novel, what did this story stir up about your own inheritance, and were you glad to have it stirred?