Educated

Educated

by Tara Westover

7 mentors recommend this 388 pages

*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 s

ISBN: 9781473538641

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Barack Obama

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"A remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho."

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"An engrossing read, a fresh perspective on the power of an education, and it’s also a testament to the way grit and resilience can shape our lives."

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