Educated by Tara Westover Download Free
Original Title: Educated
ISBN13: 9780399590504
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2018), Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography (2018), Reading Women Award for Nonfiction (2018), Alex Award (2019)
Pages: 334
Published Date: February 20th 2018
Publisher: Random House
Short Summary
Tara Westover was 17 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.
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. 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.
Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking Read More <Source>
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