Summary of Educated : A Memoir by Tara Westover

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.

Great read, very well written. It's about a lot more than Westover's story, though that would be enough.

There's a lot about memory, and how we can remake our memories of events as our circumstances change. Westover's journals are key in this: At times they force her to deal with what she actually experienced. Other times, her journals are not reliable as she wrote some things to make herself believe a false narrative.

There's also the idea of loyalty, and complex family dynamics.

There are a few things I wish had been addressed more, and some things seemed glossed over or even ignored. This may seem to be a strange complaint of a book that is so brutal in what it does reveal.

Still, very well written and compelling.