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Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover.

Westover, Tara, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0399590501
  • ISBN: 9780399590504
  • ISBN: 9781786330512
  • ISBN: 1786330512
  • ISBN: 9781786330529
  • ISBN: 1786330520
  • ISBN: 9781443452472
  • ISBN: 1443452475
  • ISBN: 039959051X
  • ISBN: 9780399590511
  • Physical Description: xiii, 334 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2018]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence in the churches -- My feet no longer touch Earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- I'm from Idaho -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for the moving water -- If I were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation -- Hand of the almighty -- Tragedy then farce -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the sun -- Four long arms, whirling -- Gambling for redemption -- Family -- Watching the buffalo -- Educated.
Awards Note:
Alex Award, 2019
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Longlist, 2019
Chicago Public Library Best Top Ten Books, 2018
John Leonard Prize Finalist, 2018
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Finalist, 2018
National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Finalist, 2018
NPR Best Books, 2018
Reading Women Award for Nonfiction, 2018
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Subject: Westover, Tara > Family.
Women > Idaho > Biography.
Survivalism > Idaho > Biography.
Preparedness > Biography.
Mormons > Idaho > Biography.
Home schooling > Idaho > Anecdotes.
Women college students > United States > Biography.
Victims of family violence > Idaho > Biography.
Adult children of dysfunctional families > Idaho > Biography.
Subculture > Idaho.
Idaho > Rural conditions > Anecdotes.
Idaho > Biography.
Anecdotes
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
Westover, Tara.
Christian biography.
Families.
Home schooling.
Rural conditions.
Subculture.
Survivalism.
Victims of family violence.
Women.
Women college students.
Idaho.
United States.
Westover, Tara > Family.
Christian biography.
Counter culture > Idaho.
College students > United States > Biography.
Women > Idaho > Biography.
Idaho > Biography.
Idaho > Rural conditions > Anecdotes.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Biography.
Anecdotes.
Autobiography.

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