1)    What is the significance of the title? In what ways is Amy a “late bloomer”? And what is the “revolution” to which she refers?

2)    How does The Late Bloomer’s Revolution address issues of identity? How would you identify Amy at the start of the memoir? How does she change and grow? In what ways does she redefine her identity?

3)    Amy wonders, “How much can you change about yourself at any age? I mean, really change…Can you go from being a pessimist to an optimist? It’s often assumed by your thirties you are who you are…I found that interesting since I felt I only really started growing up at thirty-one.” Discuss this passage. Can you grow up at any age? Is it ever too late to change your life?

4)    The relationship between Amy and her father, Murray, plays an important role throughout the book. Amy says, “I remember feeling lucky but guilty that we’d only found each other this way because my mother died.” What does she mean by this? How does her relationship with her father bring on feelings of guilt and also joy? Discuss how their relationship evolves.

5)    In “Queen of the Court,” Amy discusses the misconceptions married mothers and their single friends have about each other. Discuss this. Do you agree? Is this common?

6)    Loss is a prevalent theme in this memoir, so much so that it becomes an actual character. How does Amy deal with the losses in her life? How does loss impact her life? How does it harm her and how does it empower her? Can loss ever be a good thing?

7)    David Rakoff, author of Fraud, said that Amy delineates the “very real difference between solitude and loneliness.” What does he mean? What is the difference between solitude and loneliness? Do you feel that Amy learns the difference?

8)    Discuss Amy’s relationship with her mother, Joyce. How does their relationship change? What is Amy’s relationship with her mother like after Joyce dies?  How does Joyce continue to play an influential role in Amy’s life even after she’s died?

9)    Discuss the men in Amy’s life: Josh, Cliff Green, John Kazan, George the guitarist, and William the ice climber.  How does she change as a result of each relationship? Does she learn from each of the men who enters her life?

10) The last passage of the book says, “I knew that anything was possible. I knew this in a way I never had. So much, in fact, that I could now answer the question ‘Do you think you’ll be okay?’ with a confident ‘I do.’” Discuss how Amy built herself up to be capable of this epiphany.