3 Part -Review of "Educated"

Educated, Tara Westover

3 part book review:

1. Important question(s)
2. 3 words/phrases
3. What I learned

No way this is real! Realizing that this is a memoir made
from real memories, real people,
and their very real values is… unimaginable to say the least.
But I guess reality is unimaginable.
Reminds me of I Am Malala. Both are written with life, pain and love.

It’s difficult to imagine all the hard work it took first to teach yourself to get into college,
and to pull a façade of a highly learned student, all that cognitive dissonance. It’s wild.

There’s also both physical and emotional abuse that becomes blurred as comfort for Tara.  
I understood her motivations of why she would always want to go back to her family,
after all home is home,
there was comfort in familiarity.

cough* Stockholm syndrome??* cough cough.
Tara exhibits immense strength in the sense
that she doesn’t express self- pity, she remembers the trauma but tries to forget the pain.

1. What influences/perceptions can become dangerous? How do family obligations change you? Where is the line between obligations and sheer insane-ness?
2. Hopeful, infuriating, unimaginable
3. Anyone, anywhere has the potential to overcome adversity, 
follow your gut, realize foul relationships, never settle, do not fall into self-pity