A review by ger561
Educated by Tara Westover

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Educated is a book that explores the themes of religion and how when taken to the extremes can become something akin to a cult. Tara the main character goes through her life as a young girl without going to school. She learns everything about the world through her family and grows up thinking that the outside world is evil. However when her brother helps her go to college she has to figure out how to differentiate the image of the world as she learned it to how it actually is along with a changing relationship with her family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, and Violence

Minor: Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Cultural appropriation