47 pages • 1 hour read
This Is a Love Story
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Book Club Questions
General Impressions
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of illness.
Gather initial thoughts and broad opinions about the book.
1. Which aspects of This Is a Love Story were most and/or least emotionally affecting? Discuss which relationships and conflicts most resonated with you and why.
2. What other works of contemporary literary fiction does This Is a Love Story remind you of? Consider parallels between Soffer’s novel and titles like Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy By the Sea and/or Daniel M. Lavery’s Women’s Hotel.
3. Compare your experience reading This Is a Love Story to your experience reading Soffer’s 2013 title Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots. What narrative, formal, and thematic parallels do you notice between Soffer’s texts?
Personal Reflection and Connection
Encourage readers to connect the book’s themes and characters with their personal experiences.
1. Discuss your responses to the narrative revelation that Abe and Alice were involved. How did you read their relationship? Do you think Abe betrayed Jane? Do you think Alice manipulated Abe?
2. How did you respond to Jane’s diagnosis of cervical cancer? How did this facet of Unlock all 47 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 9,100+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
