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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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A gripping story of a young girl growing up unschooled in rural Idaho and then breaking away from her family to join the modern world, and the higher reaches of academia no less.

I was most interested in the story line about breaking away from her family's resistance to education, much less enchanted by her account of the emotional and physical abuse in her family. And I did not appreciate the ending at all.