September: Educated by Tara Westover

This is what happens when you don't keep up with the book blog - I can't remember talking about much this book. Which seems odd because I know we had a good discussion about it.

 We did talk about which of the parents were most culpable for the damage done to their children - the father who was clearly not right minded or the mother who seemed aware that things were wrong but always backed her husband. We talked about Westover's parents always siding with their son who was abusing Tara, making excuses for his behavior. We talked about Westover's mother's business which made her the real breadwinner of the family and how she still deferred to her husband. We were all astonished by Westover's ability to pull herself out of her circumstances and her unwillingness to acknowledge that the Mormon faith was partially to blame for what had happened to their family.

We would definitely recommend this book for other book clubs.