Mandy Smith answers “I saw mentioned that Tyler Westover has...”

Sandra asked this question about Educated:

I saw mentioned that Tyler Westover has published a review of this book, giving it 5 stars and also excerpts of the letter he writes his parents. Can someone let me know where I can find this?

Mandy Smith I see someone posted Tylers review: his experience of his father recommending college has nothing to do with how the father treated Tara. Tara was the…moreI see someone posted Tylers review: his experience of his father recommending college has nothing to do with how the father treated Tara. Tara was the youngest and a female which their father treated much differently than her brothers! The father wanted Tylers help to run the business but he wanted Tara to get married and be a stay at home wife or stay and work in the junkyard. They were treated very differently and Tyler had moved out by the time Tara was old enough to go away to school. (less)

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Cam Miller I agree with your post. It would appear Tyler has little or no insight about how, by his being male, education for him was so much more accepted by hi ...more
Apr 14, 2020 01:18PM

Shreela Sen "and work in the junkyard". like that is what "women" who are "meant to" get married and be a stay at home wife re supposed to do ...
The father abuse ...more
Mar 05, 2025 10:16PM

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