Over at the Full Bookshelves forum they have started a group discussion of Tied to the Tracks, organized and moderated by Pam. The first questions were very interesting
I’m looking forward to following along but I probably won’t say too much because (as people have just recently been pointing out) an author can’t control how readers understand or interpret even what seems to be the most straight forward prose. And I’m more interested in what readers think than in explaining what I hoped they would think.