Welcome, Book Clubs!
If your book club has chosen to read one of my novels, thank you! On this page, you’ll find readers guides with questions designed to help your book club get the most out of their discussions. Depending on your meeting schedule, I am sometimes available for Skype visits or conference calls with book clubs. Please contact me if you’d like to know more.
A Readers Guide
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Voices from Readers and Critics
~ Kansas City Star, praise for All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“Throughout the book, Greenwood challenges the ways we glorify tragedy by patronizing those who experience it and insisting on their victimhood before personhood. The result is a challenging, brain-addling novel, one that shocks us less with its content than its intimacy.”
~ Publishers Weekly, praise for The Reckless Oath We Made
“Greenwood is an exquisite storyteller, using multiple narratives to effortlessly bring to life characters that are complex, flawed, generous, and utterly human, and Gentry and Zee’s tender, unusual romance is drawn in sweetly delicate strokes. Readers will be enchanted by this compassionate, winning novel.”
~Magic City Books, Tulsa, OK, praise for The Reckless Oath We Made
“Bryn Greenwood tackles very real day-to-day issues that plague the American heartland—including drug use, poverty, prison reform, obesity, racism, and family dysfunction all while she fashions a modern-day fairy tale like no one else could. A skewed love story that locates romance in the everyday and the eccentric, and finds hope in the unlikely intersection of unusual, if ordinary, lives.”
~ Publishers Weekly, praise for All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“A memorable coming-of-age tale about loyalty, defiance, and the power of love under the most improbable circumstances.”
~Kirkus Reviews (STARRED), praise for All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“Greenwood’s powerful, provocative debut chronicles a desolate childhood and a discomfiting love affair… It’s no storybook romance, but the novel closes on a note of hard-won serenity, with people who deserve a second chance gathered together….Intelligent, honest, and unsentimental.”
~ Heather Sharfeddin, author of Blackbelly, Windless Summer, and Damaged Goods
“Last Will is a richly detailed story about finding love in a world that can scarcely offer the real thing. Bryn Greenwood’s characters reveal their layer-by-layer complexity with each turning page. Their stories are heartbreaking, but never let go of dignity or beg for pity. Told without sentimentality, Last Will is an exceptional story overflowing with compassion.”