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Educated : a memoir

Westover, Tara (author.).

Summary: "Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The 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. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home."-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780399590504
  • ISBN: 9781443452489
  • Physical Description: xv, 334 pages ; 23 cm
    regular print
  • Edition: First Canadian edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2018.
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 5 / 5.0

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Subject: Westover, Tara -- Family
Women -- Idaho -- Biography
Survivalism -- Idaho -- Biography
Home schooling -- Idaho -- Anecdotes
Women college students -- United States -- Biography
Victims of family violence -- Idaho -- Biography
Subculture -- Idaho
Christian biography
Idaho -- Rural conditions -- Anecdotes
Idaho -- Biography
Christian biography
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 70 of 83 copies available at Sitka.
  • 43 of 54 copies available at BC Public Libraries. (Show)
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  • 3 current holds with 83 total copies.
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Radium Hot Springs Public Library 270.092 WES (Text) 35130000073019 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
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Anahim Lake Branch 270.092 WES (Text) 33923006041283 Non-fiction Volume hold Available -
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Boissevain-Morton Library B/Westover (Text) 36266000300694 Adult Non-fiction Volume hold Available -
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Author's Note xi
Prologue xiii
PART ONE
1 Choose The Good
3(10)
2 The Midwife
13(11)
3 Cream Shoes
24(7)
4 Apache Women
31(10)
5 Honest Dirt
41(13)
6 Shield And Buckler
54(13)
7 The Lord Will Provide
67(9)
8 Tiny Harlots
76(8)
9 Perfect In His Generations
84(8)
10 Shield Of Feathers
92(6)
11 Instinct
98(6)
12 Fish Eyes
104(8)
13 Silence In The Churches
112(10)
14 My Feet No Longer Touch Earth
122(10)
15 No More A Child
132(10)
16 Disloyal Man, Disobedient Heaven
142(11)
PART TWO
17 To Keep It Holy
153(7)
18 Blood And Feathers
160(7)
19 In The Beginning
167(7)
20 Recitals Of The Fathers
174(8)
21 Skullcap
182(5)
22 What We Whispered And What We Screamed
187(11)
23 I'M From Idaho
198(9)
24 A Knight, Errant
207(9)
25 The Work Of Sulphur
216(7)
26 Waiting For Moving Water
223(5)
27 If I Were A Woman
228(7)
28 Pygmalion
235(9)
29 Graduation
244(11)
PART THREE
30 Hand Of The Almighty
255(10)
31 Tragedy Then Farce
265(9)
32 A Brawling Woman In A Wide House
274(5)
33 Sorcery Of Physics
279(5)
34 The Substance Of Things
284(6)
35 West Of The Sun
290(7)
36 Four Long Arms, Whirling
297(9)
37 Gambling For Redemption
306(8)
38 Family
314(6)
39 Watching The Buffalo
320(7)
40 Educated
327(4)
Acknowledgments 331(2)
A Note on the Text 333

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