EDUCATED MEMOIR SERIES

She did not even have a birth certificate until she was nine years old.Īt sixteen, to escape her father's radicalism and a violent older brother, Tara left home. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. 'A memoir to stand alongside the classics. 'An extraordinary story, beautifully told' Louise O'Neill Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom.

One of the Weavers’ teenage sons was killed, as was their family dog, and in a later siege, Weaver’s wife was killed as well Weaver himself killed a US Marshal, but was later acquitted of all charges and was awarded millions of dollars in a wrongful death suit on behalf of his deceased son.Selected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. The book also makes mention many times of the Ruby Ridge standoff-a 1992 incident during which Randy Weaver and his family, doomsday preppers and Mormon fundamentalists like the Westovers, were locked in combat with members of the Hostage Rescue Team of the FBI after Weaver failed to appear in court on firearms charges. 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. She poignantly recalls watching his outright disappointment when the Y2K disaster never materialized, and the world went on spinning. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. The moment is a pivotal one for Westover, whose doomsday-prepper father believed that Y2K would usher in the end of days. She remembers the Y2K scare-the widespread fear that at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000, the world’s computers would be unable to process the change in date as the new millennium arrived and major electric and informational systems around the globe would crash. Tara Westover was born in Idaho in 1986, and grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. Tara Westover’s unique story has captivated readers around the United States and the world, and her 2018 book, Educated, has been shortlisted for awards from the National Books Critics Circle and PEN/America, and has topped the New York Times bestseller list. As Tara moved back and forth between the new world her education opened up to her and the black hole of her abusive, delusional family, she spiraled into a depression, and was forced to make a choice that would forever alter the landscape of her life. Tara Westovers book Educated is a distressing & discomforting - alarming & startling exposure of her Mormon fundamentalist family. Rebelling against her parents’ wishes, she applied to and eventually attended Brigham Young University, a Mormon college in Utah, and eventually went on to study at Cambridge University and accept a fellowship at Harvard. As Tara grew older, she became curious about the world beyond her small town and the role education could play in her life.

EDUCATED MEMOIR SERIES

The Westover home was plagued by physical and emotional violence, as well as a series of traumatic accidents which devastated the health and well-being of several members of Tara’s large family. government’s role in its citizens’ lives more broadly, Tara’s parents lived a self-sufficient lifestyle, homeschooling their children and tending to even serious injuries with herbal tinctures. Skeptical of public education, medical institutions such as hospitals and clinics, and the U.S. Born in a rural Idaho town to Mormon fundamentalist parents, Tara Westover spent her childhood and teen years working in her father’s scrap yard, helping her mother concoct and bless herbal tinctures, and attending a small, devout local church.

Educated memoir