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Generosity

by Richard Powers

While teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, Chicagoan Russell Stone encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Russell's amateur inquiries bring Thassa to the attention of a notorious geneticist whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?