Educated -

Tara Westover

Windmill Books

2018

384 páginas

12h 48m

ISBN-10: 0099511029

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected.

She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist.

As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home.

Resenhas (554)

5 (Perfeito)

Tocante.

Essa história doeu na minha alma porque eu sabia que era real. O que mais me impressiona é que hoje Tara é uma mulher de 33 anos, ou seja, toda ignorância e brutalidade com a qual ela foi criada, aconteceu nos dias atuais.
Não há como terminar esse livro sem admirar essa mulher e principalmente, ter a certeza que estudar transforma e nos leva a ter a capacidade de sair do mundo da ignorância e pensar com as suas próprias ideias. Leitura imprescindível!