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*Educated* is a 2018 memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world. She details her journey from her isolated life in the mountains of Idaho to completing a PhD program in history at Cambridge University. She started college at the age of 17 having had no formal education. She explores her struggle to reconcile her desire to learn with the world she inhabited with her father.
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- Author
- Tara Westover
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 388
- Publisher
- Random House US, Penguin Random House, Domingo Yayınevi
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English, Portuguese, Italian, tha
- ISBN
- 9781443452472
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Tara Westover (born September 27, 1986) is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. Her memoir *Educated* (2018) debuted at No. 1 on *The New York Times* bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the LA Times Book Prize, PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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