Charging Up "The Electrical Field"

Book publisher W.W.Norton & Company has a web-site designed to help spur discussion and interest in their authors.

This link takes you to a "Reading Group Guide" for the The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto. The site presents an interview with Sakamoto concerning her novel and further questions to help give the book some depth to individual readers.

Questions asked of Sakamoto largely revolve around the effects of internment camps not only on those who experienced them, but also on those of future generations; differences in internment camps between USA and Canada; personal responses to writing an emotional historiography and choices in character and narrative style; and, Sakamoto tells about the imagery of her novels title, The Electrical Field.

I liked the discussion questions afterward because they left me with a sense of ownership of the novel that is all mine...greedy, maybe, but satisfying.

Here is that link:
http://www2.wwnorton.com/rgguides/electricalfieldrgg.htm