Educated : a memoir /

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...

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Main Author: Westover, Tara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.