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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

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Broken Country

by Clare Leslie Hall

Released March 4, 2025

Why we recommend it

Broken Country combines a rural setting, an old love, and a choice whose consequences ripple through several lives. It is an intimate, emotionally charged novel with the kind of moral complexity that makes a book-club conversation come alive.

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Book-club questions

Spoiler note: These prompts are best explored after everyone has finished the book.

  • How does the return of a past love expose tensions that were already present in the life built afterward?
  • Which character's choices were easiest to understand, even when you disagreed with them?
  • How does the rural community intensify the costs of secrecy, loyalty, and reputation?
  • Did your sense of what justice would look like change as more of the story was revealed?
  • What does the novel suggest about whether love can survive the truth?