A memoir about a mother's all-consuming love, a son's perilous quest to discover the world beyond the front door and the unregulated homeschool system that impacts millions like him.
Absorbing ... His memoir is less an indictment of home schooling in general than a vivid portrait of the way the practice failed one child in particular. Block makes brief note of the regulatory vacuum that allowed his predicament, but for the most part he writes with the phenomenological precision and narrative verve of a novelist ... It is fitting that Homeschooled is narrated in the present tense. Evidently, Block’s childhood memories are still possessed of a sharp immediacy. The past is never really over for someone subjected to such scarring humiliations during his formative years.
Through this poignant memoir that seamlessly blends humor, anger, and sadness, readers will appreciate Block’s journey from homeschooling to adulthood.
