Ep. 78 Educated by Tara Westover--The Stacks Book Club (Sarah Enni)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
We are talking about Educated by Tara Westover on The Stacks Book Club today. Author and podcast host Sarah Enni helps us break down why this story became a mega-bestseller and why its the book that everyone is still talking about. We also debate the role of fact versus memory in memoir, and what this book means in the current political climate.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today on |
| 0:14.0 | the Stacks Book Club we're discussing perennial New York Times bestseller |
| 0:17.8 | educated by Tara Westover. We brought back Sarah Enney who is the wonderful author of Tell Me Everything and the host of First Draft Podcast with Sarah Annie, and she's going to help us break down this book. |
| 0:29.0 | Please be warned, there are spoilers on today's episode. |
| 0:34.0 | Before we dive in, I just wanted to remind you |
| 0:36.0 | in the show notes there is a link. |
| 0:37.4 | In that link, it will take you to all the books, articles, movies, |
| 0:40.9 | whatever else we discussed today. If you use that link to shop on |
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| 1:02.2 | last thing I have to tell you which is what I always tell you is |
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| 1:08.3 | It's super easy and it really helps the stack so if you have a moment please |
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| 1:13.8 | podcast okay let's get into this conversation of educated by Tara |
| 1:19.0 | Westover with our guest Sarah Annie. Sarah Annie. All right, you guys, we're back today with Sarah Annie. |
| 1:26.7 | Sarah is an author, journalist, and podcast host. |
| 1:30.1 | Her new book is called Tell Me Everything. And today for the Sex Book Club, |
| 1:34.0 | she and I are talking about a very small book |
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