Blood Memory Society

When the government realized that a few select people had the ability to inherit their ancestors’ memories, they protected them in a secret organization called the Blood Memory Society. But now some of those people are turning up dead, and the government needs to figure it out before the entire Blood Memory Society is extinct. Dr. Will Dunbar is on the case, but soon finds himself on the run from assassins as he tries to protect a young woman with a 400 year old memory.

Book club questions for Blood Memory Society by D.A. Field

Use these discussion questions to guide your next book club meeting.

The protagonist, Dr. Will Dunbar, makes several discoveries during the course of the story. Which do you feel is the most important and why?

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. There are many strange truths in the novel. Many of the locations, organizations, and theories really do exist. 1) Team X at JPL and the tradition of peanuts. 2) The Memory Door at the Library of Congress. 3) The fact that many of the world’s greatest minds all lived at the same time and breathed the same air. 4) The family Civil War diary. Can you name more?

What role does “Trust” play in this story? Is Will too trusting? What about Victoria?

What are some of the known scientific facts surrounding inherited memory through DNA? What is mitochondrial DNA?

How did you feel about the book’s ending?

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