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Educated a memoir

Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world b...

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Main Author: Westover, Tara (Author)
Other Authors: Whelan, Julia, 1984- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Random House Audio, [2018]
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Westover, Tara > Family.
Women > Idaho > Biography.
Survivalism > Idaho > Biography.
Home schooling > Idaho > Anecdotes.
Subculture > Idaho.
Idaho > Rural conditions > Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Audiobooks.
Summary: Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
Item Description: Title from container.
Compact discs.
Physical Description: 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time: 12:00:00
ISBN: 9780593105320
059310532X
9780525528050
0525528059
Author Notes: Tara Westover is an American author, based in the U.K. She was born in Idaho in 1986 and led a sheltered childhood. Her father did not believe in public education. She worked with her parents, becoming a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She did not attend a school until age seventeen. From there, went on to graduate from Brigham Young University, magna cum laude (2008) and won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge (2009) with a Master of Philosophy degree. She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 2010. Later, she went back to Cambridge University and earned a PhD in history (2014). Her first book is entitled, Educated: A Memoir.

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