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Tara Westover

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Tara Westover is an American author living in the UK. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom, and after that first taste, she pursued learning for the next decade. She received a BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014. ...more

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	Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,532,842 ratings — published 2018 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educated / Where the Crawdads Sing by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author), Delia Owens (Goodreads Author) 4.54 avg rating — 1,522 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educated / Education of an Idealist by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author), Samantha Power 4.39 avg rating — 272 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Castle / Educated / Where the Crawdads Sing by Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author), Tara Westover (Goodreads Author), Delia Owens (Goodreads Author) 4.58 avg rating — 142 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educated / Normal People by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author), Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 144 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educated By Tara Westover, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance 2 Books Collection Set by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author), J.D. Vance 4.22 avg rating — 77 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educated By Tara Westover and The Education of an Idealist [Hardcover] By Samantha Power Books Collection Set by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author), Samantha Power 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educated, It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime, Black and British, Natives 4 Books Collection Set 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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Educated

by Tara Westover

16 votes, 30.8%

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

13 votes, 25.0%

There There
by Tommy Orange

9 votes, 17.3%

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

7 votes, 13.5%

The Great Believers

by Rebecca Makkai

4 votes, 7.7%

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

3 votes, 5.8%

52 total votes

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