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050 00 CT3262.I2|bW47 2018
100 1 Westover, Tara
245 10 Educated :|ba memoir /|cTara Westover.
250 1st ed.
260 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2018].
300 xv, 334 p. ;|c25 cm.
500 KH-AUL-8.
505 0 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
and the churches -- My feet no longer touch the 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 -- The
hand of the almighty -- Tragedy -- 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 -- The family, morality, and
social science -- The princess -- Educated.
520 "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. With the acute insight that distinguishes all
great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal
coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an
education offers: the perspective to see one's life
through new eyes, and the will to change it."--Provided by
publisher.
600 10 Westover, Tara|xFamily
650 0 Women|zIdaho|vBiography
650 0 Survivalism|zIdaho|vBiography
650 0 Home schooling|zIdaho|vAnecdotes
650 0 Women college students|zUnited States|vBiography
650 0 Victims of family violence|zIdaho|vBiography
650 0 Subculture|zIdaho
650 0 Christian biography
650 0 Idaho|xRural conditions|vAnecdotes
651 0 Idaho|vBiography