A midwife and herbal healer who, despite moments of independence, remains loyal to her husband’s ideologies and fails to protect her children from domestic abuse.
A violent and manipulative figure whose physical and emotional abuse of Tara is a central source of conflict and trauma. Educated : A memoir
Education is framed not just as academic achievement, but as a "mental emancipation" that allows Westover to question her reality and find her own voice. A midwife and herbal healer who, despite moments