• One reviewer said that "the narrator Katherine comes to terms with a society which oppressed and dehumanized women by freeing the ghosts of her past." How did Katherine do this in the book?
  
  
• What ghosts visit Katherine on her trip to Wyoming?
  
  
• What type of woman is Katherine, the narrator of this book?
  
  
• What era did Katherine grow up in?
  
  
• What technological advances were in place during the era of the 1960s versus those in place today?
  
  
• How is Katherine different from a young women growing up in an urban environment in the early 21st century?
  
  
• How is Katherine different or not different from young women growing up in small towns in the United States today?
  
  
• What happened to Katherine in this book that caused her to take a different route than one that might have been expected of her?
  
  
• Are the conditions for unwed pregnant women today the same or different than they were when Katherine was growing up in the 1960s?
  
  
• How did Katherine process loss and come to a resolution in the book?
  
  
• How are Katherine, the narrator, and her grandmother Naomi, the protaganoist, different?
  
  
• What caused Katherine who grew up in the mid-20th century to take a different path than her grandmother who grew up in the late 19th century?
  
  
• How is Katherine's path different from that of her mother who grew up in the early 20th century?
  
  
• What is the connection between Katherine and her grandmother?
  
  
• What are the forces that cause Katherine to set out on the road to find out what happened to her grandmother Naomi?
  
  
• How do you feel about the grandmother Naomi?
  
  
• What type of mother was she and why?
  
  
• How was she different than Katherine's mother? How was she the same?
  
  
• How did you feel about Katherine's father? Her grandfather? What role did they play in Katherine's life and in the book?
  
  

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  Fiction / Women's Issues / Grief and Recovery /
  Adoption / Family History / the West/
  Domestic Abuse / Divorce /
  
  Trade paperback, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, 381 pages.
  ISBN: 0-9714473-2-2
  LCC#: 2001095609
  $14.95
  

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