Title: Educated
By: Tara Westover
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 334
Release
Date: February 20th, 2018
Publisher:
Rating:
★★★★☆
Summary
from Goodreads:
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.
Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
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.
Review: This was a wonderful look into another way of living and the hard life for a woman that just wants to follow her heart, but has to live with a paranoid and violent family. I really felt for the main character as she tries to escape her past, but everything keeps bringing her back home to a life that insists on beating her down. The struggle was real. I was fascinated with this story.
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