Here are the questions discussed at the Reading the Western Landscape Book Club at the Arboretum Library of the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden on September 28, 2016: 
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 *	What is this book about? What is the ceremony? 
 *	What function did the passages that were centered on the page and sort of looked like poetry serve in this book? 
 *	At what point were you drawn into the story? 
 *	How did you interpret the "magical realism"? Did you interpret some of this as post-traumatic stress syndrome? Why? Is Montano or Ts'eh a flesh and bone person or just something in Tayo's imagination? 
 *	What did you think about the author's female characters? Why do you think the author did this? 
 *	What did Grandma add to this book? 
 *	What cultural differences from the dominant Indo/European heritage American did you observe in the characters? 
 *	What ideas from the native American culture are intriguing for you? 
 *	What happened in the end and what did it mean? 
 *	What did you like/not like about her writing style and the structure of the book? Why? 
 *	Do you have any questions you would like to ask the group? 
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