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Book Review of Educated: A Memoir

Educated: A Memoir
Educated: A Memoir
Author: Tara Westover
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 8


I found this book extraordinary, and captivating. I read the reviews from her two brothers where they tried to explain their parents paranoia and distrust of the government. The father was thought to have schizophrenic and bipolar tendencies and the mother went along with anything he wanted. However, it was she who made their family millionaires with herbal medicines she created.

Tara's rise above her family's negativism was astonishing as she had to put her family behind her. Two brothers reached out but not her parents. Her impressive education earned many awards plus a Ph.D from Cambridge.

I could not put this book down until finished. It is a story that will stay with me for a long time.