A review by galoshes
Educated by Tara Westover

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Westover's honesty floored me. Her mistakes, her excuses for her parents, the experience of being gaslit, and her irrational decisions echo my own experience every day as someone who survived a traumatic childhood. From the outside it seems crazy that she stayed and maintained ties as long as she did, but I get it, I'm doing it now. The author calls out her own behavior as a product of her past, and I see myself reflected in it. I feel like I've learned a lot about myself by reading Tara's life.

I didn't read any of the warnings ahead of time, and I wasn't expecting gore and body horror. If I'd known I probably wouldn't have read it. I'm very grateful that I picked up this book.
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