The Librarian's Husband's Book Club discussion

Feel free to pick and choose what you want to discuss--or pose a different question.

What does the title All the Light We Cannot See mean in the context of the story?

The narration moves back and forth both in time and between different characters. How did this affect your reading experience? How do you think the experience would have been different if the story had been told entirely in chronological order?

Whose story did you enjoy the most? Was there any character you wanted more insight into?

When Werner and Marie-Laure discuss the unknown fate of Captain Nemo at the end of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Marie-Laure suggests the open-endedness is intentional and meant to make us wonder (page 472). Are there any unanswered questions from this story that you think are meant to make us wonder?

What do you think of the author's decision to flash forward at the end of the book? Did you like getting a peek into the future of some of these characters? Did anything surprise you?