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Educated

Educated (2018)

388 pages 4.6/5 Goodreads

*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.

Author: Tara Westover

ISBN: 9781473538641

Content Warnings

Identity & Discrimination

Ableism (depicted) Religious persecution

Mental Health & Emotional

Forced institutionalization (referenced)Grief / bereavement (major focus)
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