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Educated by Tara Westover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WAL STRET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELER - One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It's even better than you've heard.--Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOK REVIEW - ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOKS OF THE YEAR - BIL GATES'S HOLIDAY READING LIST - FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle's Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book - PEN/Jean Stein Book Award - Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her 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. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of Westover's] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?--VogueNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - O: The Oprah Magazine - Time - NPR - Good Morning America - San Francisco Chronicle - The Guardian - The Economist - Financial Times - Newsday - New York Post - theSkimm - Refinery29 - Bloomberg - Self - Real Simple - Town & Country - Bustle - Paste - Publishers Weekly - Library Journal - LibraryReads - BookRiot - Pamela Paul, KQED - New York Public Library
TARA WESTOVER was born in rural Idaho. She studied history at Brigham Young University and upon graduation was awarded a Gates Cambridge Fellowship to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she pursued an MPhil in intellectual history and political thought. She received her PhD in the same subject from Cambridge in 2014.
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ISBN 13 | 9780525589983 |
ISBN 10 | 0525589988 |
Title | Educated |
Author | Tara Westover |
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Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Diversified Publishing |
Year published | 2018-02-20 |
Number of pages | 512 |
Prizes | Winner of Alex Awards 2019 |
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