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Book club questions for All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr covers everything in this wonderful work of historical fiction.

Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book.

by Anthony Doerr Scribner, New York. 531 pages REVIEWED BY LAURA CUNNINGHAM “None really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” Although Jesus seemed to live this way, and I try to follow Jesus, I’m wary of those who use this quotation of Martin Luther King’s without qualification. I want to ask, “What do you think makes for life? What is truly worthy of sacrifice? Once you figure that out,

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”

Just wanted to let you all know what we’ll be reading next month in the ABM Book Club so you can get your copy now. Our awesome copy editor, Sarah, will be moderating, and she has chosen All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. I’m stoked because I haven’t read a Doerr book…

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Synopsis: Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Sai…

Tom and Isabel live alone on Janus Rock, keeping the lighthouse. After two miscarriages and one stillbirth, all on the isolated island, Isabel is despondent. When a boat holding a dead man and a crying baby washes up on shore, Isabel persuades Tom to leave the discovery out of his log and eventually adopts the child as her own. But when they visit the shore and its nearby community two years later ... you can imagine what might happen.

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