Are there any book club discussion questions for Playing for Pizza?

1. Do you find the book's plot "contrived" as one critic puts it

-another triumph-of-the-underdog story? Or do you find it humorous and face-paced as others have said? Could it be both?

2. One reviewer refers to it as a fable? What might that mean? In other Words, what is a fable, and what elements of it fable can be found in Playing for Pizza?

3. 3. Do you feel the descriptions of Italian culture add to or detract from the the story?

4. Do you think the book was predictable?