Questions for Conversation

  1. Are you adopted? Or do you have any friends, family, or children who are? Has any adoptee in your circle ever searched for their birth mother or birth father? Why or why not? What was the outcome of their search?
  2. Nora is the middle of three sisters. Do you have sisters? What is your favorite aspect of sisterhood? What’s one aspect of sisterhood you find challenging?
  3. Were you surprised by any of the turns that the plot of True to You took? If so, what surprised you?
  4. Throughout the course of the story, John struggles to accept the diagnosis he’s been given. Have you struggled to accept a diagnosis, or a difficulty, or a desert season of some kind in your own life?
  5. The theme of True to You is truth. During the course of the story, Nora and John have to dig beneath the falsehoods they’ve believed to find the truth beneath. Can you name some of the instances of False versus True that Becky touched on in this novel?
  6. Which characters or situations in the novel made you laugh?
  7. Which aspects of Nora’s bookish, history-loving personality did you relate to most?
  8. In her letter to John, Sherry writes, “. . . we so often long for a change in our circumstances. What’s ultimately of more value is God’s ability to strengthen us with power through His Spirit, so that we’ll be able to deal with the circumstances He doesn’t change.” Can you share a time when you found this to be true in your own life?
  9. True to You is set in Washington, and scenes in the novel take place at Bradfordwood, Merryweather Historical Village, and John’s modern house on Lake Shore Pine. What did the setting add to the experience of reading True to You?
  10. Which moments in True to You did you find particularly romantic?