There is no feeling like discovering a young writer springing up fully armed with so much talent. The author's ability to write about her experiences in a clear-eyed, nonjudgmental way makes her story a pleasure to read.
A study in the power and wonder of resilience. This is a daughter's story of how she grew into herself and came to understand her home.
This book would be far less harrowing if it were a novel. Tara Westover guides us through the extraordinary western landscape of her coming of age and in clear, tender prose makes us feel what she felt growing up among fanatics. We give ourselves over to her telling, even when she takes us to the very darkest places a family can dwell. Rarely have I read a book that made me so uncomfortable, so enraged, and at the same time so utterly, entirely absorbed.
I loved this book, and this woman. Tara's story will find a place alongside modern classic memoirs like Wild and The Glass Castle. Tara Westover guides us through the extraordinary Western landscape of her coming of age, and in clear, tender prose makes us feel what she felt, growing up among fanatics.
This is his youngest daughter's memoir of how she grew into herself, learned to distinguish the smell that pervaded her home, the myths she was brought up on, and the danger she just barely eluded.
Tara Westover's powerful tale--of trying to find a place for herself in the world, without losing her connection to her family or her beloved home--deserves to be widely read. My Mamaw would have been rooting for Tara. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy "This remarkable memoir--one of the best I've ever read--is my kind of miracle. Tara Westover's story will find a place alongside modern classic memoirs like Wild and The Glass Castle. Educated tells the story of a young girl's escape from violence and emotional prison.
It is about the love of family and the pain of family both, the ferocity of the human spirit, and the power of education to change lives. Educated is one of the best books, and Westover one of the most gifted writers, that I've read in a very long time. Tara Westover guides us through the extraordinary western landscape of her coming of age, and in clear, tender prose makes us feel what she felt, growing up among fanatics.
This is a daughter's story of how she grew into herself and comes to understand her home. In briskly paced prose, she evokes a childhood that completely defined her. Yet it was also, she gradually sensed, deforming her. Her new book, Educated, is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life.
Her journey will surprise and inspire men and women alike. Westover brings readers deep into this world, a milieu usually hidden from outsiders. Her story is remarkable, as each extreme anecdote described in tidy prose attests. One of the most improbable and fascinating journeys I've read in recent years. Despite its harrowing plot, [Tara] Westover's book is no misery memoir.
Her voice is so sui generis it feels in debt to no one. And despite the singularity of her childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love?
The extremity of Westover's upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing. By the end, Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.
It is about a woman who must learn how to learn. Report this Document. Flag for inappropriate content. Download now. TXT For Later. Related titles. Carousel Previous Carousel Next. Jump to Page. Search inside document. Related Interests Nature. Evan Husada Sidrap. Drs Mulatua. Christian Eduard de Dios. Faeeza Bianca Quiamco. Fitria Hardiyanti. Oz Nugroho. Novia Ranti Unforgettable. Edmund Halley. Agrifina Helga. Anonymous vFaknH. Hillbillies, Vance explains, descend from Scots-Irish Americans, who migrated to the United States from Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Although Vance himself spent most of his childhood in Middletown, Ohio—where many hillbilly families migrated in order to work at Armco Steel , a generous employer of formally uneducated workers—he identifies Jackson, Kentucky as his true home. This is because his grandparents, Mamaw and Papaw , spent the majority of their lives in Jackson. Family lore revolves around the town, and Vance illustrates the importance of the hillbilly oral storytelling tradition. They used to sit around and tell him spectacular tales.
After warning Big Red to retract his words, Uncle Pet beat him unconscious and ran an electric saw up and down his body. Having outlined the importance of honor and loyalty in hillbilly culture, Vance enumerates the many troubles plaguing Kentucky and the greater region of Appalachia. Even now—or perhaps especially now—drug addiction runs rampant throughout the working class community, along with the dietary trappings of unhealthy lifestyles that depend on fast food and sugary sodas.
They had married as teenagers in Kentucky in , two members of well-known hillbilly families. Unfortunately, Papaw had a serious drinking problem, an issue Mamaw met with intense scorn. She refused to allow her husband to continue his boozy lifestyle, and after many arguments—which included displays of domestic violence on both sides—she warned Papaw that she would murder him if he ever came home drunk again. When he ignored her several nights later, she poured gasoline on him while he slept on the couch and lit him on fire.
Luckily, Aunt Wee—who was eleven at the time—sprang to life and put the fire out. Papaw finally quit drinking years later, and although he and Mamaw separated and decided to live in different houses, they continued to spend all of their time with one another. Vance asserts that children who witness the kind of domestic discord Mamaw and Papaw were involved in are statistically more likely to lead difficult lives themselves.
Unfortunately, Bev succumbed to the statistical odds and embarked on a life of drug addiction and unstable romantic partnerships. She gave birth to Vance during her second marriage, which disintegrated not long afterward.
Her next husband, Bob Hamel , adopted Vance and was a relatively kind man, and the family achieved something like stability for a small stretch of time, during which J. This relatively calm period came to a close, though, when Bev and Bob decided to move away from Middletown because they felt like Mamaw and Papaw were encroaching upon their autonomy. One day, Vance returned from school to find that Mamaw had paid an unexpected visit. Although Bev drove her car headlong into a telephone pole, she managed to survive.
In the aftermath of this fiasco, J. During this period, Bev went into a downward spiral of irresponsible behavior, and started dating men who never stayed around for very long. One day, when Vance was upset at Bev for her erratic behavior, she apologized to him and promised to drive him to the mall to buy him football cards.
On the way, she grew angry with him and started speeding on the highway, promising that she would crash the car and kill them both. When the car stopped, though, he ran through a large field until he came upon a woman floating in a backyard swimming pool. Getting out of the pool, she took him inside and to the phone. Meanwhile, Bev arrived and hammered away at the door, eventually breaking it down and snatching J.
Fortunately, though, the woman had called the police, who quickly appeared to take Bev away. When she was later tried for a domestic violence misdemeanor, J.
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