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#1NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL,ANDBOSTON GLOBEBESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington PostO: The Oprah MagazineTime NPR Financial TimesThe EconomistThe GuardianNewsdayRefinery29Real Simple Bustle Pamela Paul, KQED Publishers WeeklyLibraryReadsLibrary JournalNew York Public Library PRESIDENT BARACKOBAMAS SUMMERREADING ONE OF BILL GATESS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE 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 UniversityBeautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Tara Westovers] 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?VogueBorn to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen 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 Taras 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 shed traveled too far, if there was still a way home.Praise forEducatedWestover 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 ReviewA heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life.USA TodayA coming-of-age memoir reminiscent ofThe Glass Castle.O: The Oprah MagazineHeart-wrenching . . . a beautiful testament to the power of education to open eyes and change lives.Amy Chua,TheNew York Times Book ReviewAmazon.com Review:Amazon Editors' #1 Pick for the Best Book of 2018: Tara Westover wasnt your garden variety college student. When the Holocaust was mentioned in a history class, she didnt know what it was (no, really). Thats because she didnt see the inside of a classroom until the age of seventeen. Public education was one of the many things her religious fanatic father was dubious of, believing it a means for the government to brainwash its gullible citizens, and her mother wasnt diligent on the homeschooling front. If it wasnt for a brother who managed to extricate himself from their isolatedand often dangerous--world, Westover might still be in rural Idaho, trying to survive her survivalist upbringing. Its a miraculous story she tells in her memoir Educated. For those of us who took our educations for granted, who occasionally fell asleep in large lecture halls (and inconveniently small ones), its hard to grasp the level of gritnot to mention intellectrequired to pull off what Westover did. But eventually earning a PhD from Cambridge University may have been the easy part, at least compared to what she had to sacrifice to attain it. The courage it took to make that sacrifice was the truest indicator of how far shed come, and how much shed learned. Educated is an inspiring reminder that knowledge is, indeed, power. --Erin Kodicek, Amazon Book Review

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