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Westover, Tara.
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Survivalism -- Idaho -- Biography.
Subculture -- Idaho.
Victims of family violence -- Idaho -- Biography.
Home schooling -- Idaho -- Anecdotes.
Women college students -- United States -- Biography.
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Westover, Tara.
Westover, Tara -- Family.
Survivalism -- Idaho -- Biography.
Subculture -- Idaho.
Victims of family violence -- Idaho -- Biography.
Home schooling -- Idaho -- Anecdotes.
Women college students -- United States -- Biography.
Women -- Idaho -- Biography.
Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Idaho -- Biography.
Christian biography.
Idaho -- Rural conditions -- Anecdotes.
Idaho -- Biography.
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Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover.
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Westover, Tara.
Random House, 2018.
Call #:
270.092 W536e
Subjects
Westover, Tara -- Family.
Survivalism -- Idaho -- Biography.
Subculture -- Idaho.
Victims of family violence -- Idaho -- Biography.
Home schooling -- Idaho -- Anecdotes.
Women college students -- United States -- Biography.
Women -- Idaho -- Biography.
Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Idaho -- Biography.
Christian biography.
Idaho -- Rural conditions -- Anecdotes.
Idaho -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781443452489 (pbk., HarperCollins ed.)
9780399590504 (hc., Random House USA ed.)
Edition:
First ed.
Description:
x, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence and the churches -- My feet no longer touch the earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- "I'm from Idaho" -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for moving water -- If i were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation -- The hand of the almighty -- Tragedy then farce -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the sun -- Four long arms, whirling -- Gambling for redemption -- Family -- Watching the buffalo -- Educated.
Summary:
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The 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. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. A coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it. Tara Westover graduated from Brigham Young University in 2008, subsequently winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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