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4.) Would you feel comfortable adopting a child from a foreign country or with skin color different from your own? Do you think there are disadvantages for a mixed race family?

5.) Do you believe Ruth planned everything from the start, or was she an opportunist?

6.) Religion is a theme that runs through
Stolen Grace
. Do you think that being religious hinders people’s spirituality or helps them become better human beings?

7.) Of all the characters in the book, who do you think was transformed the most by the events that passed?

8.) Intensive/factory farming is a topic close to Sylvia’s heart. And later in the book, Lucho teaches Grace about turtles, and the importance of mangroves and plankton. Do you believe it is the right thing to teach children about ecological issues at a very early age? How do you feel about intensive farming? Did this novel enlighten you to any issues that you didn’t already know about?

9.) What role does LeRoy play in the novel? What did he signify to you?

10.) If you had been in Sylvia’s shoes, finding out about her father’s lies, would you have felt angry or would you have identified with him? Do you think his secretive past and the guilt he bore was the cause of his suicide?

11.) We find out a little history about the involvement of US troops in the Contra War in Nicaragua. How do you feel about the USA involving itself in wars abroad? Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan? In each situation, do you believe the government went in for a good cause? Or do you suspect there were ulterior motives?

12.) We get a glimpse of who Ruth/Sara is at the end of the book. Do you sympathize with her at all? What do you believe caused her to be the way she is? And what do you imagine she may get up to next?

13.) If your child were kidnapped and found again, how would it affect you? Would it change the way you parent your child? Would you become extra protective? Or do you believe that fate is going to take its course no matter what you do?

14.) Do you think parents shape a child’s personality or are they born a certain way? What are the key elements Tommy and Sylvia teach Grace that make her the person she is? And if Grace had remained with Ruth, what sort of person do you think she would have eventually become?

15.) The Garland’s lives are changed dramatically by circumstance. Have you ever had something happen to you that has turned your life around, for better or worse?

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Stolen Grace
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Arianne.