I was such a mess after finishing Educated; Westover’s account of her path from rural Idaho to Cambridge doctorate is the most emotional book I had read so far this year. It is a harrowing and beautiful memoir, and many will be drawn in immediately. Westover’s memoir directly addresses the three topics I feel most passionately about: family, faith, and education. She is tried and tested to her limits in each element and is forced to make a choice no one should ever have to make (especially in the twenty-first century). As a heartbreaking result, two of the three are…
