Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics. This is Sarah from the

Left and today I am joined by one of our longtime listeners, Kyla Parleman, to talk about

our August book club selection tribe by Sebastian Younger. Did I think I pronounced this

last name right? I think so, that's what I've been saying.

Okay, good. Tell us a little bit about yourself Kyla. Oh, well, I live in Colorado. I have

three boys, four year old and two two year old twins. And I work part time for the local

health department coordinating volunteers. So that's what I do.

Three boy club. Woohoo. I feel like this book is relevant for us. Don't you think?

Yeah, I think so. All right. So tribe is, I think it started from a long article. Is

that right? I think you wrote it, but article or something. Go ahead.

It's a long day to be fair. Yeah. So if you guys want to just see what we're talking about

without reading the whole book, although I read the book in a day, it's pretty short. It is short.

So tribe in this book, Sebastian Younger studies War veterans and he sort of takes an anthropological

perspective. And I think he was a war correspondent. So he talks about his experiences during the

war. And this is a quote, it says, Younger's premise is that soldiers all but ignore differences

of race, religion, and politics within their platoon. And upon return to America, find a

fractitious society splintered into various competing factions often hostile to one another.

So what here's the funny thing here's how I found this book. So I read it because I was

in Ann Bogels modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club and she'll pick a book and then she'll do like

a flight of books. And so she suggested a novel called News of the World about a little

girl that was taken by an Indian tribe and then tried to return back to her biological family

and how she didn't want to go back. She wanted to stay with the Native American tribe. And so

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