Let's Get Lost (27 page)

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

Common Core aligned and suggested for book club use.

1. Is there anything that you've learned from this book? If so, how might you apply this in your own life?
   
2. Why do you think the author titled the book
   Let's Get Lost?
   How does the title relate to the themes of the book? What would be another good title for this book? Why?
   
3. Were you surprised when you found out about Leila's past? Why or why not?
   
4. How were the characters that Leila picked up along the way similar and different? Who was your favorite? Why? Whom did you like the least? Cite character actions and dialogue to support your opinion.
   
5. Describe Leila's role in the lives of each of the main characters whom she comes in contact with. How did she help each of them in a meaningful way? What parts of the text inform your analysis?
   
6. Why is Leila so effective in helping the characters she meets? How does she accomplish this? What is it about her personality and circumstances that make her so helpful? Cite examples from the text to support your ideas.
   
7. Leila seems to have a very good understanding of people. What do you think she learned on her road trip that she didn't already know about people?
   
8. Besides Hudson, which character do you think had the most impact on Leila? Cite specific words, phrases and actions from the book to defend your response.
   
9. Did Leila have to take this road trip? How might her life have been different if she hadn't?
   
10. What are the various themes of this book? What parts of the book inform your answer?
    
11. In her first letter to Hudson, Leila writes, “I've decided that my trip to see the Lights will be a treasure hunt. I'm going to steal your idea to look at the world as if it's always hiding something of value.” How did Leila follow this advice throughout her road trip? Cite specific instances.
    
12. What might the significance of Leila's car being totally red, right down to the hubcaps and entire interior, have? What might this color be a symbol for? Defend your answer with character traits and scene-specific textual evidence from throughout the story.
    
13. How does the author build suspense throughout the novel? Which lines/words/parts of the book add to this suspenseful feeling?
    

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FIRST AND FOREMOST,
thank you for picking up this book. Maybe you haven't even read it and just flipped through to the back, but at least you picked it up off its shelf, or your friend's coffee table, or from a big, heaping, pile of other books that you could have chosen instead. People like you, people who pick up books, you're the reason I get to do what I do. So, thanks.

I also get to do what I do thanks to my editors, Annie Stone at Harlequin and Emilia Rhodes at Alloy. They helped this story reach all the places it needed to go. Writers bring stories to life but editors nurse them to health so that they can one day grow up and be not just stories, but books, with shiny covers, and potential readers, and rambling acknowledgements sections.

Thanks, also, to Josh Bank and Sara Shandler at Alloy for their help, and to the entire Harlequin team for all their support and excitement over my book. Thanks to Dawn Ryan for her role in making it all possible. To Leah Kreitz for her hospitality in New York, and everyone else who's hosted me on my travels throughout the years. Thanks to RuffaloCODY, the NBA and any other job I applied for out of college that didn't hire me, and, in a way, directed me toward the life I now have.

To my parents and siblings, whose love, support, teasing, encouragement, and managerial skills were crucial in the years leading up to this. Thanks to Chris Russell, David Isern, and Maggie Vazquez for being almost as proud of me as my mom is, and for giving me a reason to travel to go visit them.

I'm extremely thankful to be where I am, doing what I get to do. I wish I could acknowledge everyone that deserves to be acknowledged—from those closest to me who've provided constant support, to passing acquaintances who were unknowing muses, and right down to all the authors, musicians, and filmmakers whose wonderful work inspired me to create some of my own—but my memory is too flawed and this page is too small.

 

BPA

 

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ISBN-13: 9781460326718

LET'S GET LOST

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