Description
In this powerful memoir, Tara Westover recounts her extraordinary journey from a childhood spent in isolation on a remote Idaho mountaintop to becoming an accomplished scholar. Raised by a survivalist family that rejected formal education and modern medicine, Westover had no birth certificate, no schooling, and no contact with the outside world until she was seventeen years old. Through vivid, unflinching prose, she chronicles her struggle to break free from her family's rigid ideology and pursue an education, ultimately earning a PhD from Cambridge University. This is a gripping testament to the transformative power of education and the resilience required to forge one's own path against extraordinary odds. Westover's memoir challenges readers to consider the cost of isolation and the courage it takes to question deeply held family beliefs.
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paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2018
344 pages
ISBN: 9781473538641
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First Published
2018
Language
eng
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