Good Morning, Midnight

What is the impact of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s character-driven approach, and how might a more traditional speculative fiction plot impact Augie’s and Sully’s portrayal?

What are the other crewmembers’ narrative roles, and how do they impact Sully’s story?

What is the significance of the wolf in Augie’s narrative? If Iris’s despair over its death is a creation of Augie’s mind, why would he imagine that reaction?

Why does the novel never clarify what happened on Earth? What is the effect of leaving this ambiguous?

Brooks-Dalton mentions in an interview that she envisioned a connection to the Emily Dickinson poem that Jean Rhys used as an epigraph for the 1939 Good Morning, Midnight:

Good morning, Midnight!

I’m coming home,

Day got tired of me—

How could I of him?

Sunshine was a sweet place,

I liked to stay—

But Morn didn’t want me—now—

So good night, Day!

What light does Dickinson’s poem shed on Brooks-Dalton’s Good Morning, Midnight?

Why is it significant that Augie and Sully are in fact father and daughter? Why does Brooks-Dalton avoid having Augie and Sully realize their connection? How would such a realization impact the narrative and each character’s development

Discuss the significance of the story’s flashbacks. How do they develop the theme of Time, Memory, and Redemption?

Analyze Augie’s relationship with his parents and the role that played in both his pre-Arctic behavior and his growth during his final months.