Tara Westover was born in rural Idaho. She studied history at Brigham Young University and upon graduation was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She received an MPhil in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and a PhD in the same subject in 2014.
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Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. 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 hospitals.
As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen, Tara knew she had to leave home. In doing so she discovered both the transformative power of education, and the price she had to pay for it.
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评分【藏书阁打卡】2019已读022 这是一本愤怒的书,在房思琪的初恋乐园后,我还没读到过这么让人怒火中烧的书。书名让人以为在讲学校教育给人带来的改变,但其实讲的是女主如何艰难地与她那个荒唐而又疯狂的原生家庭(暴虐癫狂的摩门原教旨主义父亲,无所作为甚至助纣为虐的母亲,还有心理变态的哥哥)剥离,逐渐看清世界,找到真正的自我。这是一种更深层次、更广意义上的教育。阅读的过程让我很痛苦,面对来自家人的精神洗脑、语言暴力和肉体折磨,以及偶尔闪现的麻醉剂一般的温情,作者显得过于软弱,一次次地示弱、让步、道歉,不断反思是否错在自己,唯一的反抗不过是悄悄地逃离。但也许不这样做,她根本无法成功活下来吧,而这本书本身,其实就是作者一场巨大的、不动声色的报复。
评分 评分 评分##我们要背叛多少曾经,才能找到真正的自我? 看了她的故事,比尔·盖茨说:“这是一个惊人的故事,我在阅读她极端的童年故事时,也开始反思起自己的生活。这本书每个人都会喜欢,它甚至比你听说的还要好!” 离奇,边缘,十七岁前她从未上学 在美国的山区,有这样一个家庭:孩子...
评分 评分 评分##16/02/2020-28/02/2020 幸运的人,一生都被童年治愈;不幸的人,一生都在治愈童年。作者显然是后者。读第一部分的时候因为书评的“剧透"我还是抱着猎奇摩门教奇怪教义的心态来看的,待读到第三部分时,猎奇的心理已经被为作者感到痛苦,愤怒,委屈等一系列情感所替代了。近些年谈得很多的原生家庭问题,在这本书中又因为宗教的原因使得作者的家庭情况更为复杂,而作者把在对抗过程中所经历的苦痛化为力量,以宗教背后的历史与文化为课题,在学术方面取得了成就,真的是一位坚强又出色的女性。
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