Educated Review

Tara westover was brought up to believe women should be submissive. When she won a visiting fellowship at harvard, her parents took opportunity to make an aggressive last attempt to control her. Her father said it was satan that was controlling terra, and he needed to cast him out with a blessing. If she accepted the blessing, she would be cleansed of her worldliness. So she refused. The decision took so much out of her that she had a mental breakdown and almost didn't finish her thesis. But she found her strength and focussed and finished doctor westover hasn't spoken to her parents in years,. She finally feels she has found herself and remains close to some