En cours de chargement...
Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn't exist. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in hospitals. As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen, Tara knew she had to leave home.
In doing so she discovered both the transformative power of education, and the price she had to pay for it.
Educated - in more ways than one
Tara Westover's 'Educated' is not an ordinary American Dream memoir. The author's unlikely odyssey from living in a millenarist Mormon family steeped in abuse and irrationality to preparing graduate work in history at Cambridge is in itself an improbable twist of fate which will leave the reader spellbound from beginning to end. That said, 'Educated' is doubly original and daring in Westover's expressions of class and family betrayal which accompany her legitimate struggle to achieve an existence of dignity and sanity far from the life of toil and threats which were her lot with her parents. A gripping and thought-provoking read illustrating the complexity of social class ascension in America today.