Educated (Westover) - Book Reviews

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A girl claws her way out of a claustrophobic, violent fundamentalist family into an elite academic career in this searing debut memoir.… Westover’s vivid prose makes this saga of the pressures of conformity and self-assertion that warp a family seem both terrifying and ordinary.
Publishers Weekly


Explicit descriptions of abuse can make for difficult reading, but…Westover's writing is lyrical and literary in style. With no real comparison memoir, this joins the small number of Mormon exposes of recent years.  —Jessica Bushore, Xenia, OH
Library Journal


A recent Cambridge University doctorate debuts with a wrenching account of her childhood and youth in a strict Mormon family in a remote region of Idaho.… An astonishing account of deprivation, confusion, survival, and success.
Kirkus Reviews