Why do you think Lily went to the home of the relative of the girl whose identity she had stolen?Ħ. Is that ever really possible? Is it healthier to leave everything behind?ĥ. Lily attempts to sever her childhood and the difficult years in her homeland completely from her adult life. What secrets do other characters keep, and how do you think the secrets ultimately help or hurt their loved ones?Ĥ. There are many secrets in The Imposter Bride, beginning with Lily’s true identity. Why do you think Lily chose to communicate with her daughter through rocks as opposed to words?ģ.
What does the novel suggest about whether families are born or made?Ģ. Richler’s writing style is compelling and the way in which the narrative alternates between points of view and time periods and creates wonderful descriptions of characters and landscapes.īy exploring how the past has been preserved and how information has been passed down within a family, Richler emphasizes the extent to which, through stories, the secrets of the past can be unraveled.ġ. By structuring the book in this way, Richler explores the irrevocable psychological and familial ruptures that occurred as a result of World War II. The reader as well as the characters must piece together fragments of information about the past in order to discover the actual identity of Ruth’s mother, what her life was like before the war, what happened to her during the war, and where she went after leaving Montreal. In many ways The Imposter Bride unfolds like a mystery. When Lily marries Sol’s brother Nathan, a guest realizes that Lily is not the bride’s real name, which raises questions about Lily’s actual identity then and in the years following the birth of her daughter Ruth. The events of the novel are set in motion when Lily Azerov steps off a train in Montreal to greet Sol Kramer, a man whom she has never met but has agreed to marry, only to have him reject her on the spot. Set in Montreal after World War II, Nancy Richler’s third novel, The Imposter Bride, explores the relationships between trauma and its aftermath, the complexities of identity, and the intergenerational bonds of family.
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