EducatedFor readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school. Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought.
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User Review - ainsleytewce - LibraryThingAs promised, here is my review of Educated. Put me down as not impressed. Before going further, I would like to call readers' attention to the Jan. 29 2023 piece in Deseret News by Daryl Gibson, which ... Read full review
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User Review - dele2451 - LibraryThingA powerful story about self-preservation and the challenges of breaking the cycle of domestic abuse. Not many modern stories shed such a bright light on physical and psychological abuse perpetrated by close siblings so that makes this memoir stand out from many others currently on bookshelves. Read full review
Contents
Honest Dirt | |
Shield and Buckler | |
The Lord Will Provide Contents | |
Tiny Harlots | |
What We Whispered and What We Screamed | |
Im from Idaho | |
A Knight Errant | |
The Work of Sulphur | |
Waiting for Moving Water | |
If I Were a Woman | |
Pygmalion | |
Graduation | |
Perfect in His Generations | |
Shield of Feathers | |
Instinct | |
Fish Eyes | |
Silence in the Churches | |
My Feet No Longer Touch Earth | |
No More a Child | |
Disloyal Man Disobedient Heaven | |
To Keep It Holy | |
Blood and Feathers | |
In the Beginning | |
Recitals of the Fathers | |
Skullcap | |
Hand of the Almighty | |
Tragedy Then Farce Part | |
Watching the Buffalo 40 Educated 32 A Brawling Woman in a Wide House | |
Sorcery of Physics | |
The Substance of Things | |
West of the | |
Four Long Arms Whirling | |
Gambling for Redemption | |
Family | |
Authors Note | |
Acknowledgments | |
A Note on the Text Part Three | |
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| Title | Educated |
| Author | Tara Westover |
| Publisher | HarperCollins, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1443452505, 9781443452502 |
| Length | 400 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Biography & Autobiography / Women |
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