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Educated

Tara Westover

  • 388 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2018
  • 35 editions
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1 About this book

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.

  • Christian biography
  • Survivalism
  • Biography
  • Biography & autobiography
  • Women, united states
  • Family life
  • Anecdotes
  • Women college students

2 About Tara Westover

Born 1986

Tara Westover (born September 27, 1986) is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. Her memoir Educated (2018) debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award. The New York Times ranked Educated as one of the 10 Best Books of 2018.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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