TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westover,Tara
TI  - Educated
SN  - 9780099511021 (paperback)
AV  - CT3262.I2 W47 2018
U1  - 289.3092B 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Windmill Books
KW  - Westover, Tara
KW  - Westover, Tara.
KW  - Bookclub collection
KW  - Mormon Church
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Home schooling
KW  - Idaho
KW  - Survivalism
KW  - Biography
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Mormon fundamentalism
KW  - Mormon women
KW  - Utah
KW  - Adult children of dysfunctional families
KW  - Women
KW  - Subculture
KW  - Christian biography
KW  - Victims of family violence
KW  - Students
KW  - Ex-cultists
KW  - United States
KW  - fast
KW  - Women college students
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - lcsh
KW  - lcgft
N1  - First published in the USA by Random House in 2018; First published in the United Kingdom by Hutchinson in 2018
N2  - 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, Westover has crafted, from her singular experience, a universal coming-of-age story, one 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
ER  -