Everyone Has a Right to Tell Their Story
A couple of weeks ago I finished reading the memoir "Educated," written by Tara Westover. It was honestly one of the best books that I had read in a long time, and one of the most emotionally intense. The memoir details the story of Tara growing up in the middle of nowhere Idaho, where her parents (in particular her father) were paranoid about the modern world and the Illuminati, distrusted the public school system and homeschooled all their kids (well in actuality they barely taught them anything, having them work in a scrap heap), and kept their children away from vaccines. On top of it all Tara also dealt with a physically abusive older brother (he's called Shawn in the book, but many of the names were changed) and her family barely paid attention to this. Against all odds Tara went from having no formal education to getting a PhD in history, attending BYU, Cambridge, and Harvard. The book has justifiably become a bestseller. It even has admirers such as former Presi