The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

by Edward Kelsey Moore

  14. Whether alive or dead (or a ghost), the mothers of the Supremes play a major role in their daughters’ lives. As the Supremes grow older, how do their mothers continue to exert an influence on their adult lives? Who is hurt most by it? Who is helped by it? Who is most like her mother as she gets older?

  15. Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean each attend three very different churches. In what ways did growing up in these particular churches help to shape them into women they ultimately became?

  Suggested Further Reading

  Eric Jerome Dickey, Sister, Sister; Bebe Moore Campbell, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine; Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe; Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Sheneska Jackson, Li’l Mama’s Rules; Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale; Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; Kathryn Stockett, The Help.