Book Club Questions

1.    What device or purpose do the intermissions serve, and how did they influence your reading of the book? Did they give the collection more meaning?


2.    How did the titular story change your idea of what the ‘know’ in Women I Know means?


3.    What kind of knowing do you think is intended by the author?


4.    In what ways are these stories universal, and in what ways are they not?


5.    How did this book meet, not meet, or flip your expectations?


6.    What did you make of the reoccurring themes to bodies of water throughout the book?


7.    How about the references to vertigo? How did the epigraph deepen the references to vertigo throughout the book,
if at all? 


8.    What did you think about the different approaches to form in this book?  
 

Women I Know
Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, UT...
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