Find and discuss passages in the book that you feel express some truth or poignancy or humor. Talk about the role of the dogs in this story? Why is Arrow important to Keith? What do you think about the finale, especially Arrow's fate?ĩ. What might she mean-how can setting be character?Ĩ. Hoffman has said that the landscape and weather of Florida, inspired her to write Turtle Moon-the fictional Verity became the first character in her novel. What role do signs and wonders play in the book in other words, how do they affect characters and events? Do you enjoy her use of the fantastic.or find it off-putting? Either way, why?ħ. Talk about what Hoffman means by "magic" and how she injects it into this novel. Hoffman believes in a magical world and wants her readers to experience it. Whose ghost is in the tree outside Burger King? Why is it there? And how does it eventually bring redemption to Julian?Ħ.
Whom do you find especially appealing or sympathetic?ĥ. Talk about the characters-both major and minor ones. What kind of woman is she? Why can't she seem to penetrate her son's anger? Why has she left her husband in New York, and what is she seeking in Verity? In fact, what are all the divorced women in Verity seeking or running from?Ĥ. What do they have in common? What has caused Keith's anger and Julian's anguish? Is history destiny for these two people-for all of us?ģ. Hoffman presents us with two deeply troubled males, 12-year-old Keith and adult Julian. Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)Īlso consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Turtle Moon:ġ.Generic Discussion Questions-Fiction and Nonfiction.How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips).Read It If: you were ever the child of divorced parents or ever felt the call of the moon in March.Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources they can help with discussions for any book:
This book is sweet, sad, melancholy and delicious. Her characters must grow through their pasts and face things in order to resolve things, not simply solve a crime. And it also has the magic realism that makes her stories so much more than just a another novel. But like all Hoffman novels, it’s about how the effects of events ripple outwards and change people, how they can effect a whole small town. In some ways, this book is a novel about a murder of a mother, and a teenage kid who gets mixed up in it when he instinctively runs away with the woman’s baby to protect it. It can make a mother brave enough to investigate a murder to clear her sons name, and it can make a hardened K9 policeman fall in love with her.
The turtle moon can make the meanest teenaged boy in town run away with a baby to keep her safe. Divorced single mothers often move to small town Florida, but none of them are aware like the local population, that the moon in March will make crazy things happen.
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