Playing for Pizza (Grisham)

Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:

• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)

Also consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Playing for Pizza:

1. Do you find the book's plot "contrived" as one critic puts it—another triumph-of-the-underdog story? Or do you find it humorous and face-paced as others have said? Could it be both?

2. One reviewer refers to it as a fable? What might that mean? In other words, what is a fable, and what elements of it fable can be found in Playing for Pizza?

3. Do you feel the descriptions of Italian culture add to or detract from the the story?

(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)

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