Bury Your Dead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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Summary

Background

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapters 1-3

Chapters 4-8

Chapters 9-12

Chapters 13-16

Chapters 17-20

Chapters 21-23

Chapters 24-26

Character Analysis

Themes

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Important Quotes

Essay Topics

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Discussion Questions

Essay Topics

In what ways does Penny establish that history, both personal and national, is about language?

How does Penny use Armand Gamache’s case, and his own personal life, to explore how to recover from betrayal?

How do Gamache’s and Jean-Guy Beauvoir’s differing responses to their shared experiences reveal fundamental distinctions in their character and temperament?