A lot has been purported about literacy, its impact on economy and how it contributes to the GDP of a nation. If a country envisions high economic growth it’s imperative to create an awareness, a conducive environment that supports education for all. Education should not be a privilege; but a right, an entitlement that when provided leverages opportunities to every individual.
As long as an individual has the ability to dream, believe in the power of that dream; then no invasion of pervasive challenges can swerve his or her determination. One only needs an impetus and a sense of direction to fuel that desire in order to achieve the impossible. The author Tara Westover in her memoir ‘Educated’ walks us through her remarkable and a poignant life journey that begins without any prior formal education till the age of 17 to acquiring a PhD program in history at Cambridge University.
The author’s indefatigable spirit of surmounting all the challenges that came her way, right from the stubbornness of her bipolar father who never believed in the institution of education (primitive thinking) to facing the brutal physical assaults of her brother spewed with venomous words that left the author battered and blue and a mother who could never take a stand to save her daughter; re-lives an account of her life through words that beautifully and intrinsically portray the agony and anguish experienced by her with fortitude strikes a chord with the reader.
I fall short of words to describe how I feel now or how I felt while reading this book. Writing a review for this book would be an understatement, for it is a meticulously structured chronicle that can only be felt and explored when savored word to word. I loved reading this book and I would urge each one of you to go ahead and pick this one up for an explosive and immersive reading.