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#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
Born to survivalists in the...
Born to survivalists in the...
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Listening to this on my commute was an experience — Westover's voice (through the narrator) is so measured when describing the most extreme circumstances. Growing up with survivalist parents who distrusted education, hospitals, the government — and then clawing her way to Cambridge. The scene where ...
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The scene where she sees the Holocaust in a textbook for the first time. She was seventeen. The weight of everything she didn't know, couldn't know — listening to this on the MRT, I had to stop and just breathe.
You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.
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