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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Educated // Tara Westover.
Author:	Westover, Tara.
Published:	London :Windmill Books, : c2018.,
Description:	xiii, 384 p. ;20 cm.;
Notes:	Originally published: London: Hutchinson.
Subject:	Ex-cultists - Biography. - United States -
Subject:	United States. -
ISBN:	9780099511021 (pbk.) :

Educated /
Westover, Tara.

Educated /Tara Westover. - London :Windmill Books,c2018. - xiii, 384 p. ;20 cm.

Originally published: London: Hutchinson.

Part one: Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- 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. Part two: To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- I'm from Idaho -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for moving water -- If I were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation. Part three: The hand of the almighty -- Tragedy then farce -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the sun -- Four long arms, whirling -- Gambling for redemption -- Family -- Watching the buffalo -- Educated.

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she travelled too far. If there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

ISBN: 9780099511021 (pbk.) :NT348

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB8G2356bnbSubjects--Personal Names:

1214333
Westover, Tara.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

1214336
Ex-cultists
--United States--Biography.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

665264
United States.

Dewey Class. No.: 371.8092

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