TY - BOOK AU - Westover,Tara TI - Educated: a memoir AV - CT3262 .I2 2018 PY - 2018///] CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Westover, Tara / Family KW - Westover, Tara KW - Women / Idaho / Biography KW - Survivalism / Idaho / Biography KW - Preparedness / Biography KW - Mormons / Idaho / Biography KW - Home schooling / Idaho / Anecdotes KW - Women college students / United States / Biography KW - Victims of family violence / Idaho / Biography KW - Adult children of dysfunctional families / Idaho / Biography KW - Subculture / Idaho KW - Idaho / Rural conditions / Anecdotes KW - Idaho / Biography KW - Adult children of dysfunctional families KW - Families KW - Home schooling KW - Mormons KW - Preparedness KW - Rural conditions KW - Subculture KW - Survivalism KW - Victims of family violence KW - Women KW - Women college students KW - Idaho KW - United States KW - Autobiographies KW - Anecdotes KW - Biography N1 - 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 --; 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 --; 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 N2 - Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her 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. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home ER -