Funny You Should Ask

Discuss Chani Horowitz’s Jewishness and how it makes her feel like an outsider, both in Los Angeles and in Montana. Discuss how this sense of being a cultural outsider impacts her search for home and belonging throughout her career.

Examine Chani’s career and her associated character development through the lens of celebrity and success. What does it mean to Chani that she’s never quite sure if she can separate her own success from proximity to Gabe Parker? How does Chani’s definition of success change throughout the novel?

Discuss Sussman’s use of the additional news excerpts, reviews, profiles, and blogs—what if anything do they add to the novel? How do they help build its structure, move the plot, and comment on, complicate, or clarify its themes? Cite specific examples from the text to support your argument.