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How does this setting influence the narrative? How do you think the story would have been different if it was set in a different city or state? Much of the novel is set against the backdrop of Los Angeles, California.Thank you for reading! We hope you enjoyed The Perishing by Natashia Deón and found it thought-provoking. Below are some topics to consider and questions to discuss. Thank you so much to readers who have selected The Perishing for your upcoming book club! References to being “taken up” are from Enoch in Gen 5:21–24, Elijah in 2 Kings 2:1-11, inspired also by the abrupt end of the Apostle Paul’s story concluding Acts 28.Īnd, a myriad of personal interviews, old letters from the 1920s and 1930s, and other texts listed in the Acknowledgements section of The Perishing.Discussion Guide: The Perishing by Natashia Deón Stories in: Images of America, Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights by the Japanese American National Museum Jewish Historical Society of Southern California Photo Collection/Los Angeles Public LibraryĪutry National Center/Southwest Museum, Los Angeles The Colony of Eritea from its Origins until Maby Beniamino Melli The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance by Rita Barnard The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris ChangĪnna May Wong by Graham Russell Gao HodgesĬhinese Women Yesterday and Today by Florence Ayscough If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester HimesĪsian Americans: An Interpretive History by Sucheng Chan

The Negro Motorist Green-Book by Victor H. Los Angeles’s Central Avenue Jazz by Sean J. Mexican American Boxing in Los Angeles by Gene Aguilera Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angeles, by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration Lost Los Angeles by Dennis Evanosky and Eric J. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonĪfrican Americans in Los Angeles by Karin L.

The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles 1850-1930 by Robert M. Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights by the Japanese American National Museum

Douglas FlammingĪmerican Indians and Route 66 produced by the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association A non-exhaustive reading and research BIBLIOGRAPHY for THE PERISHING:īound for Freedom by Dr.