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Every Wickedness Endorsements

Tall, blond, caffeine-dependent, and fearless. Fighting the forces of darkness while surviving faculty meetings. Juggling the demands of small children with those of ad hoc detective work. And — did I mention this? — flattening the occasional Bad Guy with her black-belt Tae Qwan Do. Thistlethwaite’s Ginelli has it and does it all, a Wonder Woman with powers that we can all strive to have. And she moves through a Chicago landscape vividly conjured by Thistlethwaite’s wonderful, funny and high-energy prose. Do yourself a favor and read this book.

Paula Fredriksen, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

In addition to being a great mystery novel, Thistlethwaite offers us a revealing meditation on the tragedy of evil. It makes clear that the solidarity and love of people often regarded as difficult or “disposable” are ways we overcome human wickedness. That insight alone makes it also a valuable work of theology.

Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D. Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs

Volunteers of America

Susan Thistlethwaite covers complex social and ethical terrain in all of her writings. In Every Wickedness she has invited us to navigate this terrain with her once again alongside of why favorite cop-turned-detective Kristin Ginelli, who untangles mysterious incidents and exposes wicked intents with equal parts curiosity, conviction, audacity, and poise.

Aram Mitchell

Executive Director, Renewal in the Wilderness

In moving into the 21^st Century, many Biblical myths that describe and even shape the human experience are losing their credibility, one good example being the creation narrative’s core notion that just being a woman is sinful, justifying the sexual rights of men. Thistlethwaite’s images of the ultimate dichotomies of human existence take life’s control out of the hands of freely acting supernatural Gods and Satins, placing it squarely in the decisions human creatures are free to make, usually for their own self-gratification. Not as mystery, but as life the way it is, “Every Wickedness” should be on each church’s teen and adult study group’s early agenda.

Robinson Lapp, M.Div., M.A., United Church of Christ Minister (Ret.), Chicago Theological Seminary Life Trustee.

Book Club Discussion Questions for Where Drowned Things Live

1. How do our faith and/or values help or hinder us in addressing issues like sexual harassment either in our own lives, or in the lives of others?

2. Does Kristin Ginelli understand she’s a teacher not a cop any more? Does she push Ah-seong too hard or not hard enough to find out what’s going on?

3. Kristin is struggling with her own issues of personal grief and anger. Does this give her insight into the Kim family, or does she have trouble relating to the brother and sister because she does not understand her own limitations in regard to Korean culture?

4. Does Kristin begin to get some insight into her own white privilege from her interactions with persons of different races and cultures, and if so, how? If you think she fails, where does she fail and why?

5. What might Alice Matthews have to say about Kristin’s barging ahead all the time?

6. Academic privilege is still alive and well on college campuses. How does that privilege intersect with white privilege? In other words, does Henry have the same access to power as Kristin?

7. A subplot is taking place in the quotations at the beginning of each chapter. Kristin starts out her new career as an academic thinking she can find mental refuge in ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle). Slowly, she begins to realize that power and privilege are masked by those abstractions. She starts thinking about power and privilege in real life as a subject for her dissertation. What helps YOU understand how to deal with power and privilege in the systems where you find yourself?

8. With which character, if any, did you identify?

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