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Raised far outside mainstream education, Tara Westover did not enter a classroom until she was seventeen. Educated traces her journey from an isolated survivalist upbringing in Idaho to Cambridge, while exploring family loyalty, self-discovery, and the cost of building a life of her own.
• Readers are deeply moved by the memoir’s emotional honesty and intensity
• Many praise Westover’s writing as powerful, thoughtful, and beautifully crafted
• The book resonates as an inspiring story of self-education, resilience, and breaking away from difficult circumstances
$235.00
#1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe bestseller
Named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review
One of Barack Obama’s favourite books of the year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
In Educated, Tara Westover recounts a childhood shaped by isolation, survivalism, and the absence of formal schooling. Born to a family in the mountains of Idaho, she was seventeen the first time she entered a classroom.
Raised outside mainstream systems of education and healthcare, Westover grew up in a household where hospitals were avoided, injuries were treated at home, and outside authorities were mistrusted. With no structured schooling and little connection to the wider world, her understanding of history, politics, and society was shaped almost entirely by her family’s beliefs.
Eventually, she began educating herself, teaching herself enough mathematics and grammar to gain admission to Brigham Young University. From there, her pursuit of knowledge carried her far beyond the life she had known, taking her to Harvard and to Cambridge University.
As her world expanded, so did the distance between the person she had been raised to be and the one she was becoming. Educated is a memoir about self-invention, family loyalty, and the painful tension between belonging and transformation. It explores what education can offer: not only knowledge, but the ability to see one’s life differently and imagine a new future.
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