教育助她飞离原生家庭
文/米歇尔>迪安 译/孙美萍
A coming-of-age memoir that chronicles a young woman’s efforts to study her way out of a tough childhood in Idaho and find herself through books.
《你当像鸟飞往你的山》是一部成长回忆录，记述了一位年轻女子如何通过学习走出她在爱达荷州的苦难童年，以及她通过书籍发现自我的经历。
2We hear a lot about the edges of the US these days.Geographically, these places might be in the middle of the continent, but they are on the periphery of the country’s economic life, and often the social one too.The people who live there are desperate and pitiable, we are told, just as much as they are brutal and superstitious.
2近来，我们听到许多关于美国边缘地区的消息。从地理位置来看，这些地方可能位于美国的中部，但它们处在这个国家经济生活的边缘，而且通常也是社会生活的边缘。有人告诉我们，生活在那里的人们既绝望又可怜，正如他们既野蛮又迷信一样。
3Tara Westover’s memoir is about being from just such a place and people.She was born to Mormon fundamentalist parents in Idaho, the youngest of seven.Her father Gene was the prophet of their small family, convinced the world was going to end at the stroke of the millennium.(When it did not, the author observes, the 'disappointment in his features was so childlike, for a moment I wondered how God could deny him this“.) He does not believe in sending his children to school, but does believe that dairy products are sinful,owing to a message from God.'Isaiah doesn’t say which is evil, butter or honey,“ is how he delivers the good news.'But if you ask, the Lord will tell you!“
3塔拉>韦斯特弗的回忆录讲的就是出身于这样一个地方、来自这样一个群体的故事。她出生在爱达荷州的一个摩门教原教旨主义教徒家庭，是七个孩子中最小的一个。父亲吉恩是他们小家庭中的预言家，他坚信世界会在千禧...
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