Body Surfing by Anita Shreve - Book Club Discussion Questions

Body Surfing by Anita Shreve opens with an evocative description of a beach house and a woman swimming, surfing her body on the ocean’s waves. The book club discussion questions on Body Surfing will help you explore the themes Shreve develops so well—love, loss, marriage, the ocean.

Spoiler Warning: These book club discussion questions on Body Surfing by Anita Shreve may reveal important details from the novel.

1. Why do you think Shreve chose Body Surfing as the title?

2. What was the significance of the career of Sydney’s first husband, the aviator?

3. Were you surprised by Julie’s running away? By the person she ran away with?

4. Do you think Sydney and Ben start a relationship? Do you think it was realistic that they could overcome their history?

5. Rate Body Surfing on a scale of 1 to 5.