Educated
By Tara Westover
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Non-fiction
Genre: memoir, family
Read on 2019-03-20
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★★★★★
(Goodreads). Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag".
Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.
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I listened to this as an audiobook, narrated by the author herself, and remember I did in fact cry in a grocery store (not H Mart).