Educated by Tara Westover

Tara Westover’s widely lauded memoir recounts her childhood in the mountains of Idaho. Her survivalist parents shunned public education but barely taught Tara and her six siblings. Her violent older brother terrorized her. Westover becomes inspired when an older brother, who studied covertly, leaves for college. This remarkable book traces Westover’s struggle to get an education as it details the personal cost she paid.