EDUCATED

"Educated" is a Fearless Memoir of Deeply Unsettling Truths on Religion, Familial Abuse, and Identity

The first glimpse the Westover family had of the book that would go on to shatter their lives came in the form of an unmarked manuscript, left under the cover of night on the seat of a family truck.

Whispers of Tara's mission to publish a memoir of her life had reached them already—which was enough to make their stomachs churn at what might lie within: harrowing tales of abuse, brutal clashes between siblings, crude home remedies for dire injuries, the fiery rants of a doomsday-obsessed father, and a mother too passive to shield her children from harm. Reading it for the first time, however, left them without words.

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