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Book Review of Educated: A Memoir

Educated: A Memoir
Educated: A Memoir
Author: Tara Westover
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Hardcover
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I read this with my book club. I found it improbable and prejudicial.
It is also poorly thought out. The only problem that she sees in her family life is the conservatism. There was also personalities and hangups--including serious brain damage. She claims their family issues had nothing to do with Mormonism, but they lived like all of Zion lived until the US overtook Utah.
She claims she overcame the binary thought patterns of her family, but it seems like she just exchanged them for the equally binary thought patterns of her professors.