between a 4 and 4.5 star rating.  Tara grows up in Idaho with extremist parents.  They are Mormon but definitely lean to paranoia types.  Her father thinks public education will only lead to corruption by the government so Tara is never sent to public school (the same for her siblings).  There are so many wild stories in this book that are just written like it is totally normal.  Tara gives an interesting insight into growing up in this type of environment and what it does to your own beliefs.  Tara is able to eventually get into BYU and eventually Cambridge and Harvard.  Going to college exposes her to so many different ways of thinking about the world that she starts to question some of her core beliefs.  It was a tough read because as a reader you are constantly saying WTF while you can see she is struggling with her own truths.