A Fortune of Sand
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How does the Nightingale operate within the patriarchal systems that institutionalize women, and how do its deceptive methods complicate its efforts to protect them?
What do the differing methods and moral codes of Luc Bonafante and Duncan Lennox, two powerful men who operate outside the law, reveal about integrity and survival in their world?
How does Sepetys use the narrative’s structural alternation between Glen Arden and the Nightingale to develop the novel’s conflicts around freedom, control, and family authority?
How does A Fortune of Sand compare with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) in its treatment of wealth and moral decay?
What role does artistic creation play in the lives of Marjorie, Ivy, and Bernice, and how does it shape their opportunities for independence and self-expression?
After researching the history of Michigan’s Eloise Asylum, how does the novel’s portrayal of the institution compare with the historical experiences of people who were confined there?
How does Sepetys’s use of shifting limited third-person perspectives shape the novel’s presentation of Luc Bonafante and Juliette Bonafante?
In what ways does the novel use the historical reality of the Purple Gang to explore the relationship between legitimate industry and organized crime in Prohibition-era Detroit?
To what extent does Marjorie’s final choice reflect changes in her character, and how does it draw on traits she possessed from the novel’s opening scene?
What do Graham and Chet’s actions against their father reveal about their responses to his control and wrongdoing, and what ethical questions do their choices raise?
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By Ruta Sepetys
