Educated
2018 · adult
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Set in 2 places · 2 primarySense of Place
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Description · Open Library (CC0)
*Educated* is a 2018 memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world. She details her journey from her isolated life in the mountains of Idaho to completing a PhD program in history at Cambridge University. She started college at the age of 17 having had no formal education. She explores her struggle to reconcile her desire to learn with the world she inhabited with her father.
Set in
- ★Buck Peak · United States★ primaryIdaho mountain where Tara Westover grew up off-grid in her survivalist family
- ★Buck's Peak · United States★ primaryThe Idaho mountain where Tara Westover's survivalist family lived, the world she had to escape to get an education