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003			BML
020			_a9781786330529
082	0	0	_a270.092 _bWES
100	1		_aWestover, Tara,
245	1	0	_aEducated : _ba memoir
260			_aLondon _bHutchinson _c2018
300			_axv, 385 pages ;
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."--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen
650		0	_aSurvivalism
650		0	_aHome schooling
650		0	_aWomen college students
650		0	_aVictims of family violence
650		0	_aSubculture
650		0	_aChristian biography.
650		0	_aIdaho
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