Stay Book Club discussion

When the story’s timelines converge and the connections between the letters are revealed, how did that change your understanding of fate and coincidence in the novel?
Do you think the author believes everything happens for a reason — or that meaning is something we create afterward?

Sometimes we blindly wish for some mysterious invisible thread to exist, while other times we completely forget such connections. Yet, I came to understand that simply facing things sincerely, without even knowing it was a thread, had ultimately led us to carefully unravel and gather a complex web of threads tangled across time and space. And I came to understand that the miracle of being able to see where the thread connects—surely that must be what we call destiny.I think the Namiya General Store was a hub where destinies converged.