- Reading Group Guide

Reading Group Guide for The Road Between

1) Should politicians’ lives be completely open to public scrutiny or should they be allowed a certain degree of privacy? Who determines what should be allowed to be private and what should be disclosed?

2) Are you for or against embryonic stem cell therapy and why?

3) Should the US change its policy to regulate the creation and disposal/use of embryos?

4) Was Skylar truly a being a good friend to the Hastings by writing the article or was she simply justifying what she did?

5) In the end, were Edward’s consequences of giving up his cherished career and living the rest of his life with a secret –a secret capable of destroying his marriage, punishment enough for betraying his constituents and ignoring Noelle’s beliefs and choosing to use ESCs in her therapy?

6) If confronted with a tragedy like Noelle’s, do you honestly think you’d be able to take the moral high ground and continue living your beliefs, even if doing so hurt the people you love?

7) How does Skye’s personal loss and Faith’s brush with death (twice) affect her relationships and motivate Skye’s actions/beliefs?

8) Do you think that Skye would have gone after any politician who stood in the way of ESC research, or do you believe Hastings’ record in general made him an easy target? Or was it the fact that he represented the people from Skye’s state that particularly infuriated Skye?