Looking for discussion questions on Stranded?

1. Here are some questions you can use. They are open-ended with no “correct” answer. In the Comment section below, please feel free to add other questions you discussed in your book club—and how the meeting went, if you’d like! ☺

• What one thing would you take with you if you were to be stranded on an island?
• What would be the hardest part of survival for you?
• Who was your favorite character, and why?
• Of the three “villains” in the story—Captain Emilio, Jojo, and Danny Romero—which would you flee from the fastest?
• Jake, Eve, Betty, and Crystal struggled with different abandonment issues. What were they?
• A professional suggested Ginny be given a flaw such as nagging or even adultery in order to make it more acceptable to the reader that Jake could fall in love with another woman. Do you agree?
• How did you feel about the Jake-Eve romance?
• In Stranded, the authors featured God’s sovereignty as one of His divine character qualities. How did each character respond to it initially and by the end of the book?
• Discuss how any of these themes played out in the story: justice, family, father, purity/chastity, loyalty, etc.
• In what different ways was the gospel interwoven into the story?
• In literature, a symbol is usually a material object that represents something abstract. What are some possibilities for what the Lone Soldier symbolized?
• How did each castaway change by the end of the story?
• At the end of the book, a few ends were left untied. Did these bother you?
• What did you especially like about the story? Not like (shame on you)?

2. Below are ten blog sites where Don and/or Stephanie were interviewed. They are good sources for biographical information and for learning how Don and Stephanie worked together as co-authors (can you believe they’re still happily married?).

1. https://claricejames.com/2014/11/
2. https://brendaandersonbooks.com/2014/11/13/getting-to-know-authors-don-stephanie-prichard/
3. https://www.johuddleston.com/search?updated-max=2014-11-27T04:00:00-06:00&max-results=7&start=11&by-date=false
4. https://sarahruut.com/2014/11/24/don-and-stephanie-prichard-share-their-new-release-stranded/
5. https://www.marylball.com/-behind-every-story–blog/archives/11-2014
6. https://judeurbanski.blogspot.com/2014/12/give-away-of-stranded-debut-novel-of.html
7. https://lillian-duncan.com/2014/12/12/writer-of-the-day-stephanie-prichard/
8. https://lenanelsondooley.blogspot.com/2014/12/stranded-don-and-stephanie-prichard-one.html
9. https://diamondsinfiction.blogspot.com/2015/01/set-sail-with-author-stephanie-prichard.html
10. https://catherinecastle1.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/wednesday-writers-welcomes-stephanie-prichard/