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I read this back to back with The Vanishing Half, and though I think these will be the two outstanding books I will read this year, and they are nothing alike plotwise, their theme is the same: the heroines are women who want nothing more than their families, and struggle to leave behind their abusive and corrosive insularity ( Education her Idaho survivalist crazy family on the mountain and Stella and Desiree the crazy prejudices of Mallard); they all think for years they can straddle that divi
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I highly recommend this book. It is a fantastic read and a look inside a culture within the United States that I had no experience with.
I understand this book has earned a lot of critical acclaim, I understand all my friends telling me how good it is, but I must have read a different book. I just couldn't digest it very well, I guess. I'm not really sure what I was supposed to take away from it except that Tara Westover should be applauded for finally walking away from the horrible circumstances in which she was raised and for thriving in spite of her setbacks. Her story seems almost too incredible to be real and honestly it str
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What a terrible childhood. What’s more shocking is how long it took Westover to finally cut ties with her abusive family.
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