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The God of the Woods

Liz Moore

A haunting Adirondack mystery spanning three timelines (1950s, 1961, 1975) where two children from the same wealthy family disappear fourteen years apart from their family's summer camp — exposing secrets, class tensions, and the devastating cost of grief.

“Some people get lost in the woods. Some people are running toward something. And some are running away.”

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The God of the Woods Icebreakers

Answer in under 30 seconds. These connect to the book’s themes without spoiling the story.

  1. Personal Connection

    1. What's one family story you heard growing up that you later realized had huge pieces missing?

  2. Personal Connection

    2. Have you ever felt invisible in your own family? What did you do about it?

  3. Personal Connection

    3. What's the most remote or isolated place you've ever been — and did it feel freeing or terrifying?

  4. Hot Take

    4. Hot take: Rich people get away with things the rest of us would go to prison for.

  5. Hot Take

    5. If you discovered a major family secret, would you expose it or keep it buried to protect people?

  6. Hot Take

    6. Are you the golden child in your family, the forgotten one, or the one who got out?

  7. Would You Rather

    7. Would you rather have a parent who's emotionally absent or one who's controlling and overbearing?

  8. Would You Rather

    8. Would you rather know the truth about something terrible, or live in blissful ignorance if it keeps your family intact?

  9. Would You Rather

    9. Would you rather be famous and resented in a small town, or anonymous in a big city?

  10. Funny & Light

    10. What's your survival skill if you got lost in the woods: building a fire, finding water, or convincing someone else to do it for you?

  11. Funny & Light

    11. If your life were a mystery novel, who would be the most suspicious character and why?

  12. Funny & Light

    12. Camp Emerson or summer at a fancy estate: which sounds more like heaven and which sounds like a horror movie setting?

  13. Personality Reveal

    13. When conflict arises, do you confront it head-on, or disappear into the woods (literally or metaphorically)?

  14. Personality Reveal

    14. Are you more likely to trust the obvious suspect or dig deeper for the real story?

  15. Personality Reveal

    15. In a crisis, do you follow the rules, break them, or pretend you never heard them in the first place?