Content Warning: This section of the guide includes references to sexual abuse, sex trafficking, rape, and police brutality.

Blame and responsibility are frequent tropes that impact several characters and situations throughout the novel. Choose one or two events or circumstances and examine how two characters interpret it differently. What logic does each use to assign a cause to the event?

What role do minor characters play in the novel? Consider the importance of characters such as Dee, Tony, Shauna, and Camila. What does Kiara learn from each of them?

Kiara sometimes explains her involvement in the police sex parties as something she has no choice but to participate in. What does she mean by this? To what extent does Kiara have agency and in what respects is she controlled by larger forces? Is there a point in the plot at which Kiara could have made a different choice?