Educated: A Memoir

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Amazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a free business account Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Random House; First Edition edition (February 20, 2018) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-0399590504 ASIN: 0399590501 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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#1Â NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL,Â ANDÂ BOSTON GLOBEÂ BESTSELLERÂ â€¢Â NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYÂ THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWÂ â€¢Â ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAâ€™S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARÂ â€¢ BILL GATESâ€™S HOLIDAY READING LISTÂ â€¢ FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEâ€™S AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY â€¢ FINALIST FORÂ THEÂ NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEâ€™S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOKÂ â€¢ FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDÂ â€¢ FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES BOOK PRIZE NAMED ONE OF PASTEâ€™S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE â€¢ NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post â€¢ O: The Oprah Magazine â€¢ Time â€¢ NPR â€¢ Good Morning America â€¢ San Francisco Chronicle â€¢ The Guardian â€¢ The Economist â€¢ Financial Times â€¢ Newsday â€¢ New York Post â€¢ theSkimm â€¢ Refinery29 â€¢ Bloomberg â€¢ Self â€¢ Real Simple â€¢ Town & Country â€¢ Bustle â€¢ Paste â€¢ Publishers Weekly â€¢ Library Journal â€¢ LibraryReads â€¢ BookRiot â€¢ Pamela Paul, KQED â€¢ New York Public Library An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her 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 Taraâ€™s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. 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 sheâ€™d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. â€œBeautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Tara Westoverâ€™s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?â€â€”Vogue â€œWestover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

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