Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover is essentially a book about child abuse. Westover’s mother, since the publication of this book, has mounted a campaign against her daughter’s book. But even if three fourths of what Westover says is true, her parents were extremely negligent and abusive.
At the end, Westover tries to distance her account from Mormonism. I don't buy this; for this is a story about fundamentalist Mormonism, and its outcomes. If all Mormons are potential prophets, than who is to adjudicate what is prophecy and who is insane? Mainstream Mormonism is an apocalyptic religion, and members are supposed to keep a certain amount of supplies on hand in case the End Time begin. This book features an extreme form of this.
The unique excesses here could only be produced by people with extreme Mormon ideas and practices.
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