Walking on Eggshells explores the sometimes tense, and painful relationships between adult children and their parents. Traveling all across the country and listening to people’s stories, Isay has uncovered some of the problems that bother both generations, but also found the abiding love that exists–even when it isn’t expressed. Ultimately, Isay realized that successful parents have learned to grow along with their adult kids.

However, parents aren’t the only ones with stories to tell. Grown children have shared their side of the story in Walking on Eggshells, and it includes an amazing amount of love and gratitude–as well as the strong desire to be treated like the adults they are. Isay’s hope is that through reading these stories people will realize that small changes in behavior, and communication on both sides, can have a major impact on their relationships, fostering warmth and ease, and bringing out the inherent love between the generations.

Here are some questions to help you and your reading group initiate a discussion of how to navigate these oftentimes fragile bonds.