Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- Do you think that Jesus Boy is the real Jesus? Why or why not?
- What's the significance of the book being split into four parts?
- Why doesn't the novel ever reveal Jesus Boy's actual name?
- How is the Emily Dickinson poem in the epigraph crucial to the story?
- What do you think the other side of the highway is like? Do you think it's all that different or better?
- Do you think that Frannie changes her ideas about people and race over the course of the story?
- Why is it such a big deal to Sean to be able to flirt with hearing girls?
- Does the novel answer the question of whether or not God exists? How so?
- Why is Frannie such a baby hater? What's up with all of her negative emotions when she finds out that her mama is pregnant again?