Attention Book Club readers
Suggested Discussion Questions for Fireflies
- What issues does Fireflies raise for your community?
- After reading Fireflies, what questions do you have for churches? For the medical system?
- What images from the book stayed with you most strongly and why do you think that might be?
- Were there parts of the book you disagreed with and why?
- What, in the end, do you think was happening for Jimmy?
- Can you think of a time when you didn’t know how to help someone? What did you do?
- Why do you think the churches were unable to help the author and her family?
- What risks did the author take that you may not have taken?
- In what ways did Heather fail? What could she have done differently?
- What surprised you most about the book – or the characters – and why?
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