All That's Left to Tell (Lowe) - Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions
We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available; in the meantime, consider our LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for All That's Left to Tell...and then take off on your own:

1. Marc Laurent is hardly the lucrative executive that captives would hope for in a kidnapping—it's unclear that anyone would ransom him. What in Marc's life or his personality has led to this estrangement? How would you describe him?

2. Who is Josephine and what is her function in the novel?

3. In reading this, is it possible to untangle what's true from what is not? Which story, or whose story, can you believe in?

4Follow-up to Question 3: Daniel Lowe's novel is about storytelling. In what way does the author turn the conventional novel and the reader's need for, or expectations of, verisimilitude on its head...and why?

5. Talk about the alternative lives that Marc and his daughter Claire have in this novel. How do those stories provide comfort? In what ways does the novel suggest we use the stories that we tell ourselves and others to find comfort in life?

6. What is the significance of the book's title?

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