![]() ![]() Fascinating book, especially when Tara realizes that she is actually incredibly intelligent and. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Westover growing up in rural Idaho with a heavy handed conspiracy theorist, survivalist father whos harsh, often times paranoid, lording over of the family came very close to creating a very differant life for Tara. Named Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Booksellers Association Finalist for the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle Award. And a lot of insane things happened as a result. ![]() Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Publishing it was pretty much the most insane idea I’ve ever had. It wasn’t just her first semester of collegeshe had never, before that week, been in a school classroom, nor had she ever read anything at home that wasn’t a religious text. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. The first time Tara Westover, author of the memoir Educated, heard about the Holocaust, she was seventeen years old and sitting in her first semester of school at Brigham Young University. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book īorn to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.When Tara’s horse gets too close to Shawn’s, Shawn’s horse kicks Bud in the chest, and Bud takes off. Tara rides Bud, and Shawn rides the mare. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A month before Tara turns fifteen, she is outside on a summer evening helping Shawn train a new mare. an act of courage and self-invention.”- The New York Times One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Tara Westover is an American author, best known for her memoir, Educated.Born into a Mormon family, she had an unconventional upbringing, which is the highlight of her memoir.#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER ![]()
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