![]() ![]() I found it hard to believe she picked up calculus on her own as a teenager and breezed right into a well-respected institution and, later, one of the most well-respected institutions in the world.Īnd every time she was miserably failing a class, she somehow miraculously finished with an "A." I had a hard time reconciling that aspect of this memoir. That being said, it seemed to me that Tara had to have received a better childhood education than she let on. I saw much of Educated the same way, and Tara did delve into how mental illness may have played a role in her upbringing. I viewed Tara and her siblings as victims of abuse at the hands of a mentally ill father. And there was so much trauma in this book, from surviving the family's survival of horrifying accidents and injuries to Tara and her siblings falling prey to an abusive older brother, that I wondered how PTSD may have affected what was remembered - and perhaps even not remembered -in the writing of this story. That being said, Tara did not come across as a liar to me - she seemed to just remember what she remembered how she remembered it. There were times in which Tara even admitted her family remembered these tales differently and so, the reader was left trusting an unreliable narrator. There were so many hard-to-believe tales in this book that they were, well, somewhat unbelievable. In one of the most memorable scenes in the book, she asked what the Holocaust was during class. Tara's version of events was that, more or less, she began educating herself as a teen, and she first stepped foot into a classroom as a college student at Brigham Young University. Tara didn't even have a birth certificate. They didn't believe in doctors or hospitals, and they barely conducted homeschooling. #Educated tara westover freeIn his free time, he was a religious fanatic preparing for surviving an apocalypse. Her mother was a midwife and natural healer, and her father ran a junkyard. The book is a memoir by a woman who was raised in the mountains of Idaho as a member of a survivalist Mormon family. That's a loaded sentence, isn't it? Below is my Educated by Tara Westover summary: It's downright fascinating, whether you believe the many hyperbolic tales within it or not. ![]() If you are doing a 50 States of America reading challenge, this also makes a great book for Idaho. Discussion Questions for Educated by Tara WestoverĮducated is a #1 New York Times bestseller that was one of my favorite non fiction books of all time. ![]()
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