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Leerschool by Tara Westover

14 reviews

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5


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mme_carton's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

1.0


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dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It's a deeply reflective memoir, in which Tara details her life thus far in a way that simultaneously terrifies me and provides some hope. Family relationships and the complexity of one's loyalties to blood versus oneself is difficult to write about, but Tara examines them with nuance and clarity. The cognitive dissonance and difficulties with growing apart from a family structure built on paranoia and isolation is also expertly described - there is a gentle empathy in her reflections.

Overall fantastic book, it certainly holds sentimental and personal value to me. An excellent and needed recommendation from my sister. 

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5.0

This book triggered a panic attack and a small bout of self harm. Very powerful, very graphic.

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