About This Book

This discussion guide will assist readers in exploring Sorority Sisters. Hopefully, it will help create a bond not only between the book and the reader, but also between the members of the group. In your support of this book, please fell free to copy and distribute this guide to best facilitate the program. Thank you.

Discussion Questions

1. There are several aspects of sisterhood between the major and minor characters. Discuss. As a reader, whose sister-to-sister relationship impacted you most?

2. The five main characters bonded within a short period of time. Does their friendship seem genuine? Given their diverse backgrounds, would they have bonded meeting under "normal" circumstances?

3. What is the central conflict of Sorority Sisters? What additional conflicts are implied in the story?

4. Where and how does the mood of the story change? Is there a reversal?

5. Compare and contrast the following: Tiara's background with Stephanie's Chancey and Don's relationship with Malena and Ray's Which characters are most similar-, different?

6. Of the male characters, Jason, Don, Ray, Eric, Ben, Jeff, and Scott, who are protagonists, antagonists? Are the male characters realistic? Why, why not?

7. How do you think the mothers, whether or not they were introduced as characters, affected each of the main characters' transitions away from them? The fathers?

8. It's obvious that Stephanie's character evolved from being insecure to becoming one of the stronger characters; in what other ways did she and the other characters grow?

9. How do you suppose Tiara would have reacted in Cajen's situation with Jason?

10. There is no mention in the story of the actual name of the university the story takes place, or the sorority that the young ladies pledge. In what way did that affect your perception of the story?

TAJUANA "TJ" BUTLER is the founder of Lavelle Publishing and is also a writer, poet, and public speaker who conducts sisterhood workshops at colleges throughout the United States. Sorority Sisters is her first novel. She has published a collection of poetry entitled The Desires of a Woman. She is originally from Kentucky, where she attended the University of Louisville, and has lived in Atlanta. She currently resides in Los Angeles, where she is working on her second novel.

Discussion questions provided courtesy of Vintage.

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