Educated by Tara Westover
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Educated
ALA Alex Award
Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year
American Library Association’s 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Audio Publisher’s Association “Audie” Award
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers for Non-Fiction
IBW Book Award
Indie Choice Awards
Indigo Best Books of the Year
Indigo's Best Books of the Decade
John Leonard Award for Best First Book
LibraryReads #1 Pick
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Minneapolis Star Tribune
National Book Critics Circle Award
PEN/Jean Stein Award
Publishers Weekly Best Book
Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize
TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
Washington Post Best Book
Wellcome Book Prize
About the Book
For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future
#1 International Bestseller
Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school.
Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought.