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289.3/WES
Biography   Queanbeyan . . On Loan . 15 Apr 2024
B 289.3/WES
Biography   Home Service . . On Loan . 6 May 2024
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Field name Details
ISBN 9780099511021
Author Westover, Tara author.
Title Educated /
Publication London ::
Windmill Books,
2018.
©2018.
Physical description xi, 384 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes First published in the USA by Random House in 2018.
First published in the United Kingdom by Hutchinson in 2018.
Contents 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.
Summary 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't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't 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'd 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, Westover has crafted, from her singular experience, a universal coming-of-age story, one 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.
Subject Westover, Tara
Home schooling--Idaho
Mormon Church
Survivalism--Idaho
Students--Idaho --Biography
Students
Ex-cultists
Survivalism
Ex-cultists--United States --Biography
Mormon fundamentalism
Mormon women--Utah --Biography
Women--Idaho --Biography
Subculture--Idaho
Christian biography
Victims of family violence--Idaho --Biography
Women college students--United States --Biography
Genre Autobiographies
Biography
Shelf Location 289.3/WES
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