Story Circle Network
Austin Chapter
Reader's Guide

May 2000
A Woman in Amber

A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
by Agate Nesaule

  1. What effect did your knowledge of Agate’s later-life relationship with a loving man have on your reading of the rest of the book?

  2. What impact did forgiving her mother have on her later life? On her own child?

  3. Do you think the book would have been more interesting or easier to read if it had been arranged differently?

  4. The fates of her father and ex-husband were minimized. What do you think about the depth she was able to achieve in writing male characters?

  5. What did she hate to leave most when she left her home? When do you think that seed was planted?

  6. Did you get the sense of any spiritual belief or religion in her life?

  7. Did this book change any of your perceptions of history?