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Questions for the journey.

Use these prompts to begin an honest conversation about Life Shapes Us: A Journey Through Hope, Loss, Love, and Becoming by Paz Levy.

Discussion prompts

  1. Which experience in the book most clearly changed the way you see yourself?
  2. Where do hope and loss appear together rather than as opposites?
  3. What forms of love in the book are quiet, practical, or difficult to notice?
  4. Which question would you want to ask the author or another reader?
  5. Did any passage make you reconsider a decision, relationship, or second chance in your own life?
  6. How does the book describe the gap between the person we expected to become and the person we are becoming?
  7. Which image, idea, or emotional moment stayed with you after reading?
  8. What does “becoming” mean by the end of the book?
  9. Who might benefit from reading this book, and what would you want them to know before they begin?
  10. What honest sentence would you write about your experience of the book?

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