Educated (AudiobookFormat, 2018)
[sound recording] :, 12 pages
English language
Published Aug. 15, 2018
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
I has also homeschooled (Not to the fundamentalist degree that Tara was) and I knew a LOT of families just like hers. I really wish that her stories gave us insight into her emotions and perspectives more. Otherwise, this just reads like you're sitting down for coffee with a new friends who is barfing their horrible life story at you.
Very good book if you want to get really angry about some people you'll hopefully never meet.
It's amazing what some of the family achieved, and disgusting what others in the family were allowed to get away with.
