Educated by Tara Westover

Review:

This is the most suspenceful and the most terrifying book I will read all year. I thought I was going to read a book about how a kid with no education managed to acquire one, and there is some of that. But mostly this is a book about an ongoing true crime, even if no one ever frames it that way.

 

Well, okay, one of the horrible things about it isn't criminal in most states: parents may legally withhold education from their children for any reason or none. In NC, for example, a parent is required to establish a formal homeschool, with a curriculum, and annual standardized tests, but no one ever checks and there is no penalty. Nor does it seem to be a crime to use your children as slave labor. Depriving your child of life-saving vaccinations does not make you criminally negligent, either.

 

Here's horror: you find the courage to point out to your parents that they let your brother terrorize you for years, and then they try and gaslight you, shame you, kick you out of the family.

 

 

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