Educated: A Memoir
- 12h 10m 20s
- Tara Westover
- Random House
- 2018
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 17 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 Tara’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 she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
“Beautiful and propulsive.... Despite the singularity of [Tara Westover’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?” (Vogue)
“Westover 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.” (The New York Times Book Review)
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1 - Choose the Good
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Chapter 2 - The Midwife
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Chapter 3 - Cream Shoes
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Chapter 4 - Apache Women
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Chapter 5 - Honest Dirt
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Chapter 6 - Shield and Buckler
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Chapter 7 - The Lord Will Provide
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Chapter 8 - Tiny Harlots
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Chapter 9 - Perfect in His Generations
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Chapter 10 - Shield of Feathers
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Chapter 11 - Instinct
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Chapter 12 - Fish Eyes
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Chapter 13 - Silence in the Churches
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Chapter 14 - My Feet No Longer Touch Earth
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Chapter 15 - No More a Child
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Chapter 16 - Disloyal Man, Disobedient Heaven
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Chapter 17 - To Keep it Holy
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Chapter 18 - Blood and Feathers
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Chapter 19 - In the Beginning
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Chapter 20 - Recitals of the Fathers
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Chapter 21 - Skullcap
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Chapter 22 - What We Whispered and What We Screamed
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Chapter 23 - I'm from Idaho
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Chapter 24 - A Knight, Errant
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Chapter 25 - The Work of Sulphur
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Chapter 26 - Waiting for Moving Water
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Chapter 27 - If I Were a Woman
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Chapter 28 - Pygmalion
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Chapter 29 - Graduation
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Chapter 30 - Hand of the Almighty
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Chapter 31 - Tragedy Then Farce
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Chapter 32 - A Brawling Woman in a Wide House
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Chapter 33 - Sorcery of Physics
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Chapter 34 - The Substance of Things
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Chapter 35 - West of the Sun
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Chapter 36 - Four Long Arms, Whirling
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Chapter 37 - Gambling for Redemption
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Chapter 38 - Family
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Chapter 39 - Watching the Buffalo
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Chapter 40 - Educated
