Educated
by Tara Westover
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Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in hospitals.
As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen, Tara knew she had to leave home. In doing so she discovered both the transformative power of education, and the price she had to pay for it.
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Subculture, Home schooling, Family, Anecdotes, Victims of family violence, Women college students, Christian biography, Rural conditions, Survivalism, Biography, Women, Ancedotes, Idaho, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, Women, united states, biography, Idaho, biography, Idaho, social conditions, Family violence, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2018-03-11, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewedPeople
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Educated: A Memoir
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Educated is a 2018 memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world. She details her journey from her isolated life in the mountains of Idaho to completing a PhD program in history at Cambridge University. She started college at the age of 17 having had no formal education. She explores her struggle to reconcile her desire to learn with the world she inhabited with her father.
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