Great read and an amazing journey!

An insightful journey of a young girl who overcame a dysfunctional family to become a well educated scholar at Cambridge.

The main character's life is certainly challenging, but I felt like I was a hostage on a long unpleasant journey.

A jaw dropping page turner and incredible journey of this girl

A good, intelligent read with a compelling story of the incredible journey this woman took

Felt more like a disconnected novel but if true, quite an amazing journey.

The author articulated, in a way I never could, my own journey with my family.

The conflict she has with her family and how she becomes educated is a great journey.

Enjoyed following the journey.

Her struggle to find truth and herself as she reaches toward adulthood begins an even more painful journey.

And for that, the book is a good read, with a remarkable journey, but flawed.

Tara's remarkable journey left me thinking and talking about this book day in and day out

Fascinating and amazing journey from the hills of Idaho to Cambridge

This was an incredible journey that, to me, speaks to the importance and struggle one must go through be able to self define who you are as an individual while understanding that it can come with a cost.

The author's story was an incredible journey.

What a crazy journey.

It's as thrilling as fiction while actually being an honest memoir/autobiography from an author who made the amazing journey from unimaginable abuse and dysfunction to the highest levels of education and life in society.

This is a brave and heroic journey of being able to witness and journey with the author in such a struggle of what feels like life and death to redefine and reclaim herself

This journey of self discovery is articulate and emotionally raw

What I liked the most about this book is her journey to find her voice, and her own belief system

Her journey is surreal, and she weaves her tale with a unique style

Tara's story is an amazing, phenomenal journey

The conflict she has with her family and how she becomes educated is a great journey.

Ms. Westover‘s memoir is alternately inspiring and harrowing: inspiring for the incredible vertical journey she has already made in her short adult life, and harrowing for the “heart of darkness” it exposes in rural America

Tara's journey is truly inspiring and a must read for everyone!

Her mind is incredible, and her journey unimaginable and unfamiliar to most, but somehow you feel you connect, understand and cheer for her

Her journey is inspiring!

Learning to understand and believe in one's self and creating a satisfying life from all that exists is the greatest journey

Since the author makes no mention of career goals, but touts academia as a personal journey, what happens when young people try to emulate her experience, only they accumulate massive student loans and are unable to write their own best-selling novel

I’ve told every friend about this amazing book and the courageous journey of the young girl

What a fascinating journey

This is an insightful journey into the world of an end of days prepper Mormon family and the tragic failure of a homeschool education

In the end, I was happy the author escaped from her terribly dysfunctional existence to make something of herself, but the journey was very uncomfortable.

I was captivated by Tara's amazing journey

Tara relates her journey from turbulent early years marked by periodic domestic violence to adulthood with academic achievement, yet struggling with the demons of her youth.

I applaud her on making such a difficult journey and for her academic achievements!

More impressive, however, is her journey, quite a harrowing one, from the mountains of Idaho, from a fundamentalist LDS family over which her father ruled with devote immersion in religious mythology and delusion, from a home that denied science and any sort of rational thinking, that believed in and practiced, and continues to practice, discredited herbal therapies, placing Tara, family members, and others who came to them for help in mortal danger, and that, above all, not only condoned but shielded an abusive brother, putting Tara, her sister, and her sister-in-law in the path of constant psychological and physical abuse

This book was a fabulous journey of a family.

Clunky and emotional in the telling, but worth the effort to follow this young woman's journey.

An incredible journey throughout the book.

An amazing journey into the life of girl who manages to overcome abuse at home and find a reality beyond her humble beginnings

Educated is a true heroine’s journey