Alternate Side: by Anna Quindlen | Conversation StartersNew York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen writes another provocative novel about modern life in the city. Quindlen, author of Miller’s Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs, writes about the life of Nora Nolan. Nolan leads a charmed life in her dream city together with her husband Charlie. They have good jobs, a home in the city and amazing children who were off to college. New York City is her comfort zone. The owners around her block watched each others’ children grown up. Everything is set to change in one morning when Nora discovers an incident that shakes her city, her job, her marriage and herself. USA Today praises Quindlen’s newest novel for capturing the anxieties of modern life and “the realities of life among the long-married.” Booklist describes Alternate Side a precise evaluation of the modern life and the “universal human frailties.”A Brief Look Inside:EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPERthan the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,and the characters and its world still live on.Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed tobring us beneath the surface of the pageand invite us into the world that lives on.These questions can be used to..Create Hours of Conversation:• Foster a deeper understanding of the book• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before