Book Club Kit : Educated (10 copies)
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525510673
- ISBN: 0525510672
- ISBN: 9780399590528 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0399590528 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xiii, 336 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition: Random House trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | "The New York Times Book Review, 10 Best Books of 2018"--Front cover. |
Biographical or Historical Data: | Tara Westover: born 1986 in Idaho. BA, 2008, Brigham Young University; MPhil, 2009, Trinity College, Cambridge, PhD in history, 2014, Cambridge. |
Binding Information: | Perfect binding. |
Awards Note: | New York Times Book Review, 10 best books of 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist |
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Genre: | Biographies. Anecdotes. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at State Library of Alabama.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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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. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, 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 an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal 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 University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.