Adventurer reviewed Educated by Tara Westover
Great book
5 stars
This story is wild. A look at the experience of getting raised in one of the survivalist homes.
Audio CD
English language
Published Feb. 20, 2018 by Random House Audio.
5 stars
(2 reviews)
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
essteeyou@bookwyrm.social reviewed Educated by Tara Westover
Very good book if you want to get really angry about some people you'll hopefully never meet.
4 stars
It's amazing what some of the family achieved, and disgusting what others in the family were allowed to get away with.
Subjects
- Subculture
- Home schooling
- Family
- Anecdotes
- Victims of family violence
- Women college students
- Christian biography
- Rural conditions
- Survivalism
- Biography
- Women
Places
- United States
- Idaho