Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
Publication Date – February 20, 2017
5 stars
The author grew up in a survivalist, fundamentalist
household with parents that shied away from public schools and any sort of
medical assistance. The Idaho mountain
that she lived by serves as the backdrop for an unusual upbringing that is eccentric
and often heartbreaking. At sixteen, she
decides to go to college where she discovers just how strangely and
incompletely she has been educated. Once
I started reading this book I didn’t want it to end, which is unusual for a
memoir. I felt that the author, legitimately,
has a lot to say on upbringing, family and what it means to seek an
education. It is being compared to The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and
I believe that is an apt comparison. I
suspect this will end up being one of my favorite books of 2018. I received an ARC of this book from the
publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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