Explore the role of parents and parenting in Blum’s novel. Compare and contrast the ways Hoodie and Anna-Marie’s parents influence their lives. How do their relationships with their parents change over the course of the novel?

What impact does Blum’s integration of Hebrew and Yiddish words without translation have on the novel?

What tropes and narrative techniques does this novel share with other young-adult fiction you may have read? Cite specific examples from the text to support your argument.