1. I didn't understand the title of the book when I first started reading it. By the end though, I thought the title to be very fitting. What does the title mean to you?2. Do you think each character's way out was befitting for them?
3. Which woman did you empathize/sympathize with the most? The least?
4. How would you compare the treatment of women in Japanese to society to women in America?
5. What did you think of the secondary characters, Anna, the loan shark, the Brazilian? Were you satisfied with their storylines, and what did their characterizations add to the books' perception of male/female roles in Japan?
6. What one word would you use to best describe this book?
