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02976aam a2200445 i 4500 001 B9CDA384B05011EEA60D098846ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240111010209 008 211008t20222018||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0399590528 020 $a 9780399590528 035 $a (OCoLC)1273913928 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Westover, Tara, $e author. 245 1 $a Educated : $b a memoir / $c Tara Westover. 250 $a Random House trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c 2022. 300 $a xiii, 336 pages ; $c 20 cm. 500 $a "The New York Times Book Review, 10 Best Books of 2018"--Front cover. 520 $a 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. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. 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 an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. 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. 541 $d 20231021. 586 $a New York Times Book Review, 10 best books of 2018. 586 $a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. 586 $a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. 586 $a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist. 600 1 $a Westover, Tara $x Family. 650 1 $a Women $z Idaho $v Biography. 650 7 $a Survivalism $z Idaho $v Biography. 650 $a Home schooling $z Idaho $v Anecdotes. 650 $a Women college students $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Victims of family violence $z Idaho $v Biography. 650 $a Subculture $z Idaho. 650 $a Christian biography. 651 $a Idaho $x Rural conditions $v Anecdotes. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. 655 7 $a Anecdotes. 941 $a 2 952 $l XIPA157 $d 20240309011216.0 952 $l VHPA334 $d 20240111060124.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B9CDA384B05011EEA60D098846ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search