Consider the various memories recalled in Chapter 17, "Remember Earth Clearly." What would your most vivid, happiest memory be? Keep in mind the rule that it can't involve anything purchased, only experienced.

In what ways do you think setting the novel in the resort city of Palm Springs reinforces and/or illuminates aspects of its meaning - specifically, the situations of its characters and/or their journeys of transformation?

How do you regard how Dag, Claire and Andy all seem to be disguising truths about themselves in stories (about Otis, Linda and Edward)? Is the reader intended to see them as liars like Elvissa, manipulators like Tobias, or as Andy himself suggests, simply afraid of themselves? Explain your answer.

How aware do you think Andy, Dag and Claire are of the truths they're revealing about themselves in the stories of Edward, Otis and Linda? Why...