Read a Girl #32: "Educated", Tara Westover

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Welcome to another edition of our newsletter. This month I’m bringing you a distressing family tale about the power of education.

Families. Always a complicated issue. Even when you have a good relationship with them, it’s tricky. Tara Westover’s memoir “Educated” takes these issues to another level.

Born into a family that did not believe in formal education and traditional medicine, Tara grew up thinking there wasn’t much more to life outside of her father’s junkyard in the mountains of Idaho.

She spent her childhood preparing for the end of the world while working for her parents and being terrorized by one of her brothers. She never went to school and was 17 when she first set foot in a classroom. And that’s when her life turned.

It was only after she started to pursue the education she had always been denied that she understood the complexities of the situation she had been in her whole life. A true must-read.

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