One of the most improbable and fascinating journeys I’ve read in recent years.“On the highway below, the school bus rolls past without stopping…. “Whether narrating scenes of fury and violence or evoking rural landscapes or tortured self-analysis, Westover writes with uncommon intelligence and grace. “A subtle, nuanced study of how dysfunction of any kind can be normalized even within the most conventional family structure, and of the damage such containment can do.” - Financial Times
Her story is remarkable, as each extreme anecdote described in tidy prose attests.” -The Economist Westover brings readers deep into this world, a milieu usually hidden from outsiders. Her journey will surprise and inspire men and women alike.” - Refinery29 lyrical prose is mesmerizing, as is her personal story, growing up in a family in which girls were supposed to aspire only to become wives-and in which coveting an education was considered sinful. Her new book, Educated, is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life. . ★★★★ out of four.” - USA Today “Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable. Yet it was also, she gradually sensed, deforming her.” - The Atlantic In briskly paced prose, she evokes a childhood that completely defined her. “Westover’s one-of-a-kind memoir is about the shaping of a mind. “A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.” - O: The Oprah Magazine a beautiful testament to the power of education to open eyes and change lives.” -Amy Chua, The New York Times Book Review It’s even better than you’ve heard.” -Bill Gates “Westover is a keen and honest guide to the difficulties of filial love, and to the enchantment of embracing a life of the mind.” - The New Yorker “Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.” - The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post Despite the singularity of childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”- Vogue Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. 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.
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW an act of courage and self-invention.”- The New York Times One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER
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