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Biography & Memoir
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
From the South Side of Chicago to the White House, told in her own voice.
Biography & Memoir
Educated
by Tara Westover
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A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.
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- Biography & Memoir
- Audience
- Adult
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- Memoir
- Family
- Education
About the book
Westover's memoir of family, survivalism and education is careful about what memory can and cannot prove, which makes it far more powerful.
Why we recommend it
Reads like a novel and argues, quietly, for what an education is actually for.
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Prompt: A Book You Can't Put Down
One of the most consistently finished-in-a-weekend memoirs we know.
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