Educated / Tara Westover
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TextPublication details: UK : Penguin Books, c2018. Description: xiii, 384 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780099511021DDC classification: 270.092 WES
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Villa College Library | Villa College Library | 270.092 WES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 01/03/2026 | 18213 | |
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Summary
"Tara Westover was seventeen 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. 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. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University...
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