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Educated: A Memoir Hardcover - 2018
by Westover, Tara
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Details
- Title Educated: A Memoir
- Author Westover, Tara
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House, New York
- Date 2018-02-20
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0399590501-8-6
- ISBN 9780399590504 / 0399590501
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 16.51 x 3.05 cm)
- Reading level 870
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Idaho, Anecdotes
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017037645
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge UniversityBorn 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 [Tara 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?”—Vogue“Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/2018, Page 31
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2017, Page 0
- Library Journal, 02/01/2018, Page 105
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/15/2017, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 12/11/2017, Page 0
- School Library Journal, 05/01/2018, Page 112
- Shelf Awareness, 12/04/2018, Page 0