Super Short Summary

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard, ghostwritten by Craig Borlase, is a memoir focusing on Jill’s upbringing in a Christian fundamentalist family as one of 19 children, her experiences on TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, and her decision to distance herself from the show. The memoir also covers Jill’s personal journey of autonomy, marital struggles with contractual obligations, and various scandals involving her family, particularly her brother Josh. It includes discussions of sexual, spiritual, physical, and emotional abuse, rape, sexism and misogyny, miscarriage, child molestation, anti-gay bias, anti-trans bias, racism, school shootings, and gang violence.