

Unless otherwise stated, this discussion guide is reprinted with the permission of St. Did you laugh or cry at any point during A Great Reckoning, and if so, what made you do so? "Few writers in any genre can match Penny's ability to combine heartbreak and hope in the same scene," said Publishers Weekly in a starred review of Bury Your Dead.How do the emotions of both jealousy and loyalty affect the characters' actions? In Chapter 41, what is the meaning of the line, "The friendship.How do you respond to the scene in the chapel in Chapter 39, when Gamache talks to the cadets about what happened with Leduc?.Louise quotes from a poem by Jonathan Swift: "Come hither, all ye empty things,/Ye bubbles raised by breath of kings." What do you think is meant by the "bubbles raised"? What are the bubbles?.Can you think of examples of this in the outside world?


Aside from evoking the chill of November, what expectations do these lines raise about the story to come? The snow angels were coming," Gamache reflects in the first chapter.
