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008			171003s2018 nyu 000 0aeng
020			_a9780099511021
042			_apcc
082	0	0	_a270.092 _bWES
100	1		_aWestover, Tara
245	1	0	_aEducated: _ba memoir
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aLondon _bWindmill books _c2018
300			_a384 _c25 cm
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. 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."
600	1	0	_xFamily
650		0	_aWomen _zIdaho _vBiography.
650		0	_aSurvivalism _zIdaho _vBiography.
650		0	_aHome schooling _zIdaho _vAnecdotes.
650		0	_aWomen college students _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aVictims of family violence _zIdaho _vBiography
650		0	_aSubculture _zIdaho
650		0	_aChristian biography
650		0	_aIdaho _xRural conditions _vAnecdotes
651		0	_aIdaho
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