Book Clubs and High School Students may want to pursue topics in these novels that deal with how families handle divorce, with the problems of divorced women and men, and with especially the effects of divorce on children. Both novels offer opportunities to explore the cultural influences of the South on attitudes of race, marriage, the raising of children, and humor.

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