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The Memoir That Stays in Your Hands After You Close It
Educated is the story of Tara Westover growing up in an isolated survivalist family in the mountains of Idaho without going to school, without medical care, and with a father whose beliefs made the outside world feel hostile and wrong. She taught herself enough to pass the ACT, went to BYU, and eventually earned a PhD from Cambridge. The book is not about triumph. It is about what you carry when the people who shaped you cannot fully accept who you became.


:NOTE
The question the book leaves is what version of a story we are allowed to keep.


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The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made.


:JOURNEY
Reading Educated
5 Most vivid
5 Precisely captured
4 Cost made visible
5 Honest reckoning

:POLL
Did Educated change how you think about education and what it actually costs?
Yes it reframed the whole subject for me
Somewhat, I thought about it differently than I had before
Not particularly, it confirmed what I already thought
I have not read it yet