Educated By Tara Westover, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance 2 Books Collection Set by Tara Westover


Educated By Tara Westover, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance 2 Books Collection Set
Title : Educated By Tara Westover, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance 2 Books Collection Set
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ISBN : 9124200700
ISBN-10 : 9789124200701
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 656
Publication : Published January 1, 2022

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Educated By Tara Westover, Hillbilly A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance 2 Books Collection


NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent.

Hillbilly
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

Educated By Tara Westover, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance 2 Books Collection Set Reviews

  • Dennis Arkapaw

    My second reading has left me largely skeptical of this controversial home affairs tell all horror come redemption by education!!
    I cannot find answers for three basic questions:
    1. Why did Tara write such a destructive and divisive family account?? Is she actually the terrorist in this family?
    2. Who are you really Tara after all this transformational education? Not your avatar self,curated in the “ novel”, but your “uninstagrammable self” away from all those high powered interviews with celebrities?
    3. How does a home schooled girl who hated academics but loved singing for an audience from Buck’s Peak Idaho come to write a New York Times Bestseller and have PhDs from Cambridge and Harvard?? All without a ghost writer and on pure home grown genius?

    In this age of fake news, fake presidents, I dare to ask if this memoir is a fake page turner of substantially unreliable memories where truth is left in the wake of some twisted desire to expose and hurt the very ones she claims she still loves but had to leave behind because of their trapped enslavement to a nightmare cause like End Times.

    The nightmare Tara had of running through an endless maze of ammunition boxes, secret water and fuel storage dumps, stacked preserved food without any hope of escape is I believe is a symbolic representation of the “fiction” Tara has fashioned to achieve a runaway viral success.

    It’s important to hear Tara’s mother counter version in “Educating” or find very rare reviewers who have tested Tara’s account against major characters who when interviewed saw events in radically different terms. Or travelling to the very places Tara describes so majestically like Buck’s Peak to be very ordinary, or the remote isolation of their idyllic valley to actually be quite suburban.

    This a “dangerous” book that to me serves no uplifting purpose… I also find it almost implausible that Brigham Young University actually has it as compulsory reading in courses.