Book post
Educated: A Memoir Educated: A Memoir proved to be the most impactful book I’ve read throughout my college career. It was intimate, sincere, thought provoking, and also painful. The entire memoir stirred up a lot of emotions in me but all of those feelings were worth it in the end. The memoir begins with Tara reflecting on childhood. She grew up as a Mormon survivalist and lived in rural Idaho. Her dad, who didn’t believe in anything from the government, insisted that government officials were out to get her and her family around the time Tara was a child. She notes in the memoir that her dad had a breakdown because a family nearby had been shot to death for essentially not following government orders as he described. He forced Tara and her siblings to pack “head-for-the-mountains” bags to prepare to hide for when the government was going to “attack them”. Ultimately the Government never comes and years later Tara finds out that what her dad was describing was actual...