Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. 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 doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far.
Educated
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Selected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE
‘One of the best books I have ever read . . . unbelievably moving’ Elizabeth Day
‘An extraordinary story, beautifully told’ Louise O’Neill
‘A memoir to stand alongside the classics . . . compelling and joyous’ Sunday Times
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She did not even have a birth certificate until she was nine years old.
At sixteen, to escape her father’s radicalism and a violent older brother, Tara left home. What followed was a struggle for self-invention, a journey that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
‘It will make your heart soar’ Guardian
‘Jaw-dropping and inspiring, everyone should read this book’ Stylist
‘Absolutely superb . . . so gripping I could hardly breathe’ Sophie Hannah
Additional information
| Weight | 0.277 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.4 cm |
| Book_author | Westover, Tara |
| Publisher | Windmill Books |
| Imprint | Windmill Books |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | xiii, 392 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 371.8092 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
