"i'ven igo say this everywhere, but you mean, like, very specifically, any body with any version of that situation," she says. "You don't have to be raised by survivalists the mountains of idaho to really struggle to find a healthy boundary with your family." The book was always meant to be a snapshot of a specific moment in her life and is about making a difficult decision between two people who love each other.
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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