Why do you think the Straub family denied to themselves that Dakota needed some serious mental health assistance? Why do you think that this kind of issue goes undiagnosed? What advantages does Dakota have that others who struggle with mental health might not have? Discuss the mental health struggles that Dakota, Juno, and Josalyn have, respectively.How do you think real people are disenfranchised by these systems? Do you think everyone who might be disempowered by these systems is disempowered in the same ways? How difficult would it be for someone like Juno to get back on her feet? While Juno isn’t perfect, her situation is created by a lot of systemic inequality regarding mental health, physical health, housing needs, and the prison system.Nigel is clearly unhappy in his marriage.How does Winnie’s need to control things around her, especially her family life, backfire on her?.
Did you feel sympathy for Winnie, even after you discovered the full truth about her? Why or why not?
Winnie is a complicated character who doesn’t always behave well or do the right thing. As a society, how do we judge mothers who we perceive to have made mistakes, and how does the role of motherhood in this book reflect that? Motherhood is a theme that runs through this whole book: Winnie’s relationship to Sam, Juno’s relationship with her own estranged sons, Juno’s relationship to Sam, and, of course, Josalyn’s role as a mother and Winnie’s interference in that. But that peace is shattered the day Juno overhears a chilling conversation between Winnie and Nigel…īut this could be her chance to make a few things right.īecause if you thought Juno didn’t have a secret of her own, then you were wrong about her, too.įrom the wickedly dark mind of bestselling author Tarryn Fisher, The Wrong Family is a taut new thriller that’s riddled with twists in all the right places.Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | Kobo | Apple Books | Indiebound | Indigo | Audible | Goodreads Discussion Questions After her grim diagnosis, the retired therapist simply wants a place to live out the rest of her days in peace. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore. Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son-the perfect life.
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