None of This Is True: A Novel

Discuss Alix’s relationship with her sisters, Zoe and Maxine. How does Alix Summer feel about her sisters? How does she see herself as the same as, or different from, them?

Trace Alix’s changing perspective on her life over the course of the novel. How does she feel about it at the beginning? At the end?

Analyze Jewell’s use of transcripts and other documentary materials in the novel. How does this structure contribute to the text and its meaning?

Why does Josie Fair fixate on Alix, and why does her relationship with Nathan Summer become so important to Josie that she abducts him?

Josie has what Walter Fair calls “an elastic relationship with the truth” (165). What does he mean by this, and how is it illustrated in the novel? Use at least three examples to prove your point.

Discuss whether Josie is a stalker or not. How does her behavior align with that of a stalker, and how does it diverge?

Analyze the way that class differences between Josie and Alix’s family impact their relationship, and the story.

Discuss Jewell’s use of a wide range of perspectives in the novel. Why might she have chosen to approach the story this way, and how does this patchwork narrative affect the overall meaning of the story as a whole?