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Discussion Questions

Love and Other Hazards

1. How do Glenda's and Eugene's respective relationships with their daughters influence their relationship with each other?

2. In what ways do Glenda and Eugene modify each other's attitudes about love and intimacy?

3. What factors in both Glenda's childhood and Eugene's had the profoundest impact on their adult lives?

4. Glenda's and Eugene's peripheral relationships spark or impede their growing affection for each other?

5. How do Astrid's and Meredith's outlooks and behaviors change during the course of their imposed companionship?

6. Putting yourself in Glenda's shoes, how would you have responded to Eugene's spiking your tea --- and what followed?

Love and Other Hazards
by Claudia Riess

  • Publication Date: May 10, 2017
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: River Grove Books
  • ISBN-10: 1632991225
  • ISBN-13: 9781632991225