Educated

Born to survivalist parents in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover did not set foot in a classroom until she was seventeen, having no formal education, birth certificate, or medical records. She grew up learning to prepare for the apocalypse and working in her father's junkyard. Driven by a desire for knowledge, she taught herself enough to be accepted into Brigham Young University and eventually earned a PhD in history from Cambridge University. Her memoir is an account of her struggle for self-invention, chronicling her journey from her isolated life to academia and the grief that came with severing ties to her family and the world she knew.

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