The book Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska contains an extremely interesting take on the lives of a family of Orthodox Jews living in New York during the 1920's. My group is five chapters in, and I've got quite a few opinions to share.
Sara's father is obnoxiously self-centered and ignorant of other people's feelings. He refuses to take the blame for his daughters' failed marriages. Instead, he pins it on them, as though they were the ones who chose their husbands. This is absurd when one considers that they found suitable men on their own, all of whom he turned away. Somebody needs to put him in his place and remind him that people should not and can not get away with things like this.
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