《education》

I · Why I Came to This Work

I came to it because it is a first-person account of growing up outside school, then having to enter a world that already had rules.

II · Whose World Does It Open?

A girl raised in an isolated Idaho family that kept her out of classrooms, hospitals, and the official record — then the universities she had to learn from scratch.

III · The Larger Forces

Family authority, a religion that treated school and medicine as threats, and a university world that assumed everyone already knew its codes.

IV · What Choices Remain?

Chinese readers have spent years talking about the family of origin: how it binds you, how it can wreck a childhood, how it stays in the mind. On Douyin those stories are everywhere. The family in this book is stranger still. The author’s father was not only harsh — he seemed mentally unwell.

V · One Question I Kept Thinking About

If you have lived through something like this — in a family, a company, or the place you are in now — how do you choose: walk out, or accept it as fate?

VI · Read / Watch Next

《A Tree Grows in Brooklyn》