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A long way home discussion questions11/22/2023 ![]() Here, we learn more about Clara’s time at OCCA: she spent most of her student years as a bit of a reject – her art was shown in Professor Norman’s Salon des Refusés – until Peter, who was more conventionally talented and popular, noticed her. They meet with the charismatic Professor Massey, who tells them Peter was recently there, but that he doesn’t know where he went after he visited. Born out of wedlock, Bean’s gender identity is a mystery that Marianna refuses to share with her family, out of spite – though the readers in the comments speculate that Bean is a girl.Ĭlara and Myrna visit the Ontario College of Canadian Arts, where Clara and Peter went to school. At his sister Marianna’s, we encounter Bean: Marianna’s child. Neither have heard from him either.Īnd Clara meets with Peter’s siblings to see if they know anything about Peter’s whereabouts. But the records also show that he returned to Quebec City recently, just four months ago.Ĭlara and Myrna travel to Toronto to speak face-to-face with Peter’s siblings: his brother Thomas, and his sister Marianna. One place in particular stands out as unusual: Dumfries, Scotland. ![]() Neither have heard from Peter recently.ĭoing their due diligence, Gamache and Jean-Guy check Peter’s credit card records, and find that he’s traveled all over the world – Venice, Paris – in the year he’s been gone. The couple has art all over their walls, paintings from the finest Canadian painters, but none by either Peter nor Clara. As Clara’s career took off, Peter’s plateaued.įirst, Gamache pays a visit to Peter’s mother, Irene – a cold woman – and her husband, Bert Finney – a kind man. When Gamache asks Clara why Peter left, she tells him that he was always supportive of Clara when she was struggling, but wasn’t supportive of her after her success. But Gamache, thinking Clara might not want his help after all, is relieved.īut she does need his help. When Clara finds out, she’s furious at Armand: a fury that readers found frustrating and disrespectful. The neighbors gather for dinner, and Armand tells Jean Guy – who still can’t bring himself to call his new father-in-law anything other than patron – about Clara’s concerns. But it’s been a few weeks since that day, and Peter still hasn’t come back. Before he left, they made an agreement that they would have no contact during their year apart, but on the first anniversary of his leaving, he’d return to discuss their relationship. Armand wonders if Clara has been sitting with him because she pities him – or because she needs something.Īfter some time, Clara tells Armand what she’s been struggling with: the year before, she and her husband Peter, also a painter, had separated. As they sit, Clara wonders why Armand never seems to read his book. Armand has been sitting at the bench every morning, holding a book – The Balm of Gilead – but not reading it. The Long Way Home opens on the bench in the Three Pines village green. After all, How the Light Gets In ends with what feels like a natural conclusion: the internal struggles within the Sûreté du Québec are resolved, Jean-Guy gets the help he needs and marries Annie Gamache, and Armand and Reine-Marie retire to Three Pines. 1-10: From the opening chapters, readers point out that this book is very different from previous books in the series. What you’ll read below includes many of the insights from those readers.Ĭh. After the book was published, readers came together once a week on to discuss the book, ten chapters at a time. The Re-Reads initiative was initially launched in the lead-up to the publication of The Long Way Home. Now – I doubt it – but if you haven’t read the book yet, beware, spoilers lie ahead! RECAP The really unique thing about THE LONG WAY HOME Re-Read is that it was led by readers just like you, in real time, at the point of publication. Gamache, the website you are now reading, and the Re-Reads initiative was originally conceived to promote THE LONG WAY HOME so to say I have a certain connection to this book (and all of Louise’s novels really!) is to say the least! This website – a community really – with an enormous amount of content and connections was built on the back of THE LONG WAY HOME. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books and, together with Louise and the wonderful “Team Penny”, we’d undermine the publishing status quo and rocket Louise’s books to the top of the Bestseller Lists! Little did we both know that just four years later I’d join St. She signed my copy of the book as follows: We had a fabulous lunch at a Greek restaurant in New York City to celebrate the publication of STILL LIFE. I first met Louise in 2006 while working at.
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