Educated

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Tara Westover: Educated (2018, Penguin Random House)

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Published 2018 by Penguin Random House.

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978-1-4735-3864-1
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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.

«Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación.» Uno de los libros más importantes del año según The New York Times, que ya ha cautivado a más de medio millón de lectores. Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón …

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Subjects

  • Survivalism
  • Women, united states, biography
  • Home schooling
  • Women college students
  • Subculture
  • Christian biography
  • Idaho, biography
  • Idaho, social conditions
  • Family violence