Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover

By:

Westover, Tara [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Random House, c2018Description: 336 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9780399590528

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LOC classification:

CT 3262.12 .W47 2018

Contents:

Part One -- Chapter 1: Choose the Good -- Chapter 2: The Midwife -- Chapter 3: Cream Shoes -- Chapter 4: Apache Women -- Chapter 5: Honest Dirt -- Chapter 6: Shield and Buckler -- Chapter 7: The Lord Will Provide -- Chapter 8: Tiny Harlots -- Chapter 9: Perfect in His Generations -- Chapter 10: Shield of Feathers -- Chapter 11: Instinct -- Chapter 12: Fish Eyes -- Chapter 13: Silence in the Churches -- Chapter 14: My Feet No Longer Touch Earth -- Chapter 15: No More a Child -- Chapter 16: Disloyal Man, Disobedient Heaven -- Part Two -- Chapter 17: To Keep It Holy -- Chapter 18: Blood and Feathers Chapter 19: In the Beginning -- Chapter 20: Recitals of the Fathers -- Chapter 21: Skullcap -- Chapter 22: What We Whispered and What We Screamed -- Chapter 23: ’m from Idaho -- Chapter 24: A Knight, Errant -- Chapter 25: The Work of Sulphur -- Chapter 26: Waiting for Moving Water -- Chapter 27: If 1 Were a Woman -- Chapter 28: Pygmalion -- Chapter 29: Graduation -- Part Three -- Chapter 30: Hand of the Almighty -- Chapter 31: Tragedy Then Farce -- Chapter 32: A Brawling Woman in a Wide House -- Chapter 33: Sorcery of Physics -- Chapter 34: The Substance of Things -- Chapter 35: West of the Sun -- Chapter 36: Four Long Arms, Whirling -- Chapter 37: Gambling for Redemption -- Chapter 38: Family -- Chapter 39: Watching the Buffalo -- Chapter 40: Educated.

Summary: “Tara Westover was 17 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. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. 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. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.”

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU Clark Circulation	Non-fiction	GC CT 3262.12 .W47 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		NUCLA000003064

“Tara Westover was 17 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.

Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. 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.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.”

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