Take Me Apart (Sligar) - Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions
We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available; in the meantime, use our LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for TAKE ME APART ... then take off on your own:

1. What do we learn about Miranda through her diary and the other artifacts of her life that Kate Aitkin works through?

2. How—and why—do the revelations of Miranda's life affect Kate's own mental stability? What are the deeply held secrets in Kate's own life?

3. What role does Kate's Aunt Louise play in Kate's unraveling?

4. Talk about how the novel explores the way artists, especially if they are women, often suffer for their creations.

5. What does this novel reveal about the negative effects of ambition, success, and fame?

6. In what way can gossip in this novel be both corrosive as well as useful?

7. What do you think about Theo? Does your assessment of him change?

8. As you, along with Kate, continued to read through Miranda's archival material, whom did you first suspect, and did your suspicions shift from one character to another? Who and why?

9. Do you find the novel's conclusion satisfying?

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