Educated [large print] : a memoir / Tara Westover.
"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. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes of severing one's closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it."-- Page [4] of cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525589983
- ISBN: 0525589988
- Physical Description: xvi, 495 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [494]-495).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence in the churches -- My feet no longer touch Earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- I'm from Idaho -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for moving water -- If I were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation -- The hand of the almighty -- Tragedy then farce -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the sun -- Four long arms, whirling -- Gambling for redemption -- Family -- Watching the buffalo -- Educated.
- Target Audience Note:
- 870L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.4 19 500693.
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Available copies
- 22 of 32 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 32 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | LP BIO WESTOVER (Text) | 36015000830709 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 08/25/2026 |
| Swansboro Branch Library | LP BIO WESTOVER (Text) | 36015001018890 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Black Mountain Library | LP 270.092 WES (Text) | 0020512311695 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/07/2026 |
| Clemmons Branch | LP B WESTOVER, TARA (Text) | 0112521838393 | Adult Large Print Biography | Checked out | 07/27/2026 |
| Columbus Library | LP B WESTOVER (Text) | 31250200058748 | Adult Large Print Biography | Checked out | 09/02/2026 |
| Dobson Community Library | LP B WESTOVER (Text) | 30666100328618 | Adult Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Eden Library | LP B Westover (Text) | 31554010618261 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Elkin Public Library | LP B WESTOVER (Text) | 30499100545084 | Adult Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Elkin Public Library | LP B WESTOVER (Text) | 30499100545092 | Adult Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Fairview Library | LP 270.092 WES (Text) | 0020512493097 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Checked out | 03/10/2025 |
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