Anna Williams-Bonner is an identity that Anna creates for herself. Explore the ways in which this fabricated identity grants Anna a sense of authority and control. Who is she as Anna that she wasn’t as Dianna Parker and Rose Parker?

Anna publishes The Afterword at the start of the novel. Explore the ways in which writing the novel affords Anna authority over her story and fate. What is the novel about? How does she speak about the novel in public arenas, and how is the novel received?

The Sequel is written from the third-person limited point of view. Analyze the ways in which this narrative vantage point enacts Anna’s psychology and her experiences. What does the third-person limited perspective suggest about how Anna regards herself? How would the novel be different if it were written from Anna’s first-person point of view?