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Educated

Tara Westover

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#1334 of 3,809 books · #469 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2018) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2018).

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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Publisher
Random House US
ISBN-13
9781443452472
Topics
Self-education and personal transformationFamily and religious extremismOvercoming isolation and abuse

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