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Book Review of The Day I Became an Autodidact

The Day I Became an Autodidact
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[from the back cover] In this captivating, refreshing book Kendall Hailey describes her efforts to overcome adolescence through self-education. Here is atalented young writer's quest to discover and remain true to the bedrock values-intellectual, familial, and personal-as she makes the complicated but rewarding journey of growing up in a most unusual family.

Hailey is reminiscent of Holden Caulfield but shrewder..Betty Friedan