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Book Club Questions
1. What is the title about? What associations do you have to the color pink?
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2. Why is Mae so prickly and so quick to criticize others? What is her central struggle?
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3. Do you find it hard to like Mae? Is there anything to admire in her?
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4. How did you feel about her engagement to Jack? And about her family’s response?
​5. Is Tommy a good guy? How does he hurt Mae?
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6. What scene makes you especially aware of Mae’s vulnerability?
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​7. Why does Michael tell Ellie that Mae is mad at all the wrong people? Is he right?
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8. Have your feelings toward Ellie and Nick changed by the end of the story?
9. ​What is the funniest scene to you?
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10. Where is this family headed? What’s five years down the road for them?
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