Feb 20, 2018 · — The Atlantic “Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable. Her new book, Educated, is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life. . . . ★★★★ out of four.”

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.

Feb 20, 2018 · Tara Westover’s book “Educated” is a distressing & discomforting - alarming & startling exposure of her Mormon fundamentalist family. “Educated” is a memoir of nonfiction - but names and identifying details have been changed.

“Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable. Her new book, Educated, is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life. . …

Feb 20, 2018 · For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future. #1 International Bestseller. Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom.

Growing up at the foot of a mountain called Buck’s Peak in a rural Idaho county, Tara’s life was ruled by her domineering father, Gene —a charismatic but paranoid and delusional man who believed that the U.S. government was poisoning and corrupting its citizens through Godless education, Satanic medical practices, and surveillance methods design...

Feb 8, 2022 · At times harrowing but always hopeful, discover how an undocumented child worked her way from an off-grid, survivalist upbringing to exceeding even her own wildest dreams. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.

Feb 20, 2018 · #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her...

In 2018, Penguin Random House published Westover's Educated: A Memoir, which tells the story of her struggle to reconcile her desire for education and autonomy with her family's rigid ideology and isolated life.