This is quite an amazing memoir and you can hardly believe it's true but it's been pretty checked out. She was born in 1986 in Idado to parents who were extreme Mormon fundamentalists and survivalists and believing government, schools, doctors were all things to be avoided. She wasn't really even home schooled particularly but she managed to get a BA in history from Brigham Young University, a PhD in history from Trinity College Cambridge and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University.
But probably her biggest challenge was getting away from the negative influence of members of her family and to find her real self...to be "educated". She is still in contact with some of them. It's a complex story that you really have to read yourself. It doesn't fit into an "itty bitty book review"
She has talked to just about everyone who is anyone. Just a couple of links that are brief:
5 min talk with Ellen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is635n6RNR0
3 min talk with Bill Gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Y6Udf_Nzo
