Your Fellow Americans
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Which person in these pages did you most wish you could invite over for a cup of coffee, and what would you ask them?
Was there a small moment or kindness in the book that made you smile or tear up a little? Tell us about it.
Reading about so many different Americans, did any story quietly remind you of someone in your own family or hometown?
The book lingers on people we might normally walk past. Whose story made you feel more tenderly toward folks you usually overlook?
So much of this book is about being truly listened to. When was the last time you felt really heard, and how did it feel?
Which corner of the country in these pages felt the most like home to you, even if you have never been there?
By the time you closed the book, did your sense of what we share as neighbors feel warmer or more complicated, and what settled that in your heart?
If you could carry one person's outlook or comfort from this book into your own daily life, whose would it be and why?