Name: Educated: The Sunday Times and new York Times Bestselling Memoir
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Author: Tara Westover
ISBN: 9780099511021

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Educated: The Sunday Times and new York Times Bestselling Memoir

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Physical Book

Author

Tara Westover

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Cornerstone

Synopsis "Educated: The Sunday Times and new York Times Bestselling Memoir "

Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

On the highway below, the school bus rolls past without stopping.

I am only seven, but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: we do not go to school.

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. If there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story 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.

A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage . . . a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination - Sunday Times

[A] fascinating, jaw-dropping memoir - Observer

[A] superb memoir… Westover’s journey from a remote corner of the American west to one of the world’s grandest seats of learning is extraordinary . . . Her story, of fighting to be herself, is as old as the hills she came from, but Westover gives us such a fresh, absorbing take that it deserves to bring her own private Idaho into the bestseller lists, book groups and, eventually, cinemas. - The Times

Brilliantly recounts her journey towards knowledge and enlightenment - Guardian

An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. IT’S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU’VE HEARD.

Her story is remarkable, as each extreme anecdote described in tidy prose attests. That someone who grew up in her circumstances could achieve as much as she has is astonishing . . . The central tension she wrestles with throughout her book is how to be true to herself without alienating her family. Her upbringing was extraordinary, but that struggle is not. - The Economist

Tara Westover

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Tara Westover is an American historian and memoir author. Her first book, Educated, debuted at number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the list, in hardcover, for more than two years. The book, a memoir of her upbringing in rural Idaho, was a finalist for several national awards, including the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. To date, it has been translated into 49 languages. The New York Times named Educated one of the top 10 books of 2018, and the American Booksellers Association voted Educated as the non-fiction book of the year. In 2019, Time magazine named Westover one of the 100 most influential people. Westover holds a PhD in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2019 was the Rosenthal writer in residence at Harvard University. In 2023, President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal.

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