Book Review: Educated
Educated is a memoir written by American memoirist and historian Tara Westover. The book serves as a thorough recounting of Tara’s life growing up with her Mormon survivalist parents and six siblings in their farmstead in Clifton, Idaho. It’s a deeply personal book which Tara takes great effort to reflect on the unusual childhood she lived through before she eventually defied her parents’ extreme beliefs by pursuing a formal public education. Tara’s life growing up was unlike anything a typical kid would come to expect, with her parents being against any form of government-funded service, Tara spent a lot of her early years at home being home-schooled by her mother and forced to do manual labor work by her father. It wasn’t just her parents that she had a complicated relationship with either, as Tara goes to great effort in reflecting on the good and bad relationships, she formed with her siblings growing up. On a fundamental level, this may be one of the best memoirs I’ve picke...
