The search

Why do you think the narrator/Wolfe went back to the house where Grover died? Do you think the pilgrimage helped him?

Kim's next pick: "Passing"

I've been wanting to read this for some time. It's by Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen, with whom I'm completely unfamiliar. I bought her complete works (only 300 pages) from Amazon, but you can also get "Passing" as a stand-alone book.

This intrigued me on Wikipedia: Recently, Passing has received renewed attention because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities and liminal spaces. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities.

On the train

I found the mother rather amusing, especially in her insistence to reporters that her author son was not remarkable among her children and in fact was not even her brightest son. It was somewhat of a disappointment to me when her example of Grover's exceptional maturity and intelligence was his refusal to allow a black man to ride on their train car in Indiana. What were your thoughts?

The Square and Time

The first part was such a vivid portrait of the town square of Grover's childhood. What do you think this part told us about Grover?

What did you make of his sort of mantra, "this is Time," "this is the Square," "this is Grover"?

The Lost Boy

What did you all think? It was a little different, huh?

Next pick

"The Lost Boy" by Thomas Wolfe

War

The war obviously had a great impact on Tom's mental and physical health ... I can't decide to what extent it affected his faith or belief in God.