Educated
A memoir about the cost of becoming who you are when your family built you to be someone else.
The Story
Tara Westover grew up in rural Idaho, the daughter of survivalists who did not believe in doctors, schools, or the government. She taught herself to read. She went on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. 334 pages.
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No school, no doctors, no outside. This is normal to her.
Her first classroom. The whole world shifts.
They say she is lying. She has the receipts.
The cost of becoming who you are. Your family disagrees.
She earns the education. She pays for it. You finish changed.
"You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them.
"Tara Westover
Westover had never attended a classroom before the age of seventeen. She went on to receive a PhD from Cambridge University in 2014.
The memoir spent over three years on the New York Times bestseller list. Barack Obama listed it among his favourite books of the year.