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When We Believed in Mermaids, by Barbara O'Neal
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I read this last year and really enjoyed it!
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Congrats! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Genre:Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Mystery, Womens Fiction > Chick Lit
Book Description:From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.
Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news…
Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions—grief, loss, and anger—that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who’s been living a lie.
After arriving in New Zealand, Kit begins her journey with the memories of the past: of days spent on the beach with Josie. Of a lost teenage boy who’d become part of their family. And of a trauma that has haunted Kit and Josie their entire lives.
Now, if two sisters are to reunite, it can only be by unearthing long-buried secrets and facing a devastating truth that has kept them apart far too long. To regain their relationship, they may have to lose everything.
Some things to think about while you're reading. Answer just one or all of these questions, but remember, PLEASE USE SPOILER TAGS when necessary! If you don't know how, ask :)
1. What was your initial reaction to the book? Did it hook you immediately, or take some time to get into?
2. Do you think the story was plot-based or character driven?
3. What was your favorite quote/passage?
4. What made the setting unique or important? Could the story have taken place anywhere?
5. Did you pick out any themes throughout the book?
6. How credible/believable did you find the narrator to be? Did you feel like you got the 'true' story?
7. How did the characters change throughout the story? How did your opinion of them change?
8. Which character did you relate to the most, and what was it about them that you connected with?
9. How did you feel about the ending? What did you like, what did you not like, and what do you wish had been different?
10. If the book were being adapted into a movie, who would you want to see play what parts?