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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