Ike: I just realized that the reason why people don't write these stories very often is because the cost is high. Or, you know, it's very complicated to write about it. And so i wanted some one to walk me through that story, in that experience. So i think this book will have that. Like i said, id might find out that being dissociated is actually better for a story telling. But i i felt like, i hope at least that somebody, being in a more emotional position to say, here's the story, and here's the version i was telling myself, and this is what it's like to actually experience it.
Tara Westover is the author of Educated.
“I used to be so fearful. ... I was afraid of losing my family. Then, after I had lost them, I was afraid that I made the wrong decision. Then I wrote the book and I was afraid that was the wrong decision. Everything made me frightened back then, and I just—I don't have that feeling now.”
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