Tara Westover - 2018 - Educated (Memoir)

Educated - Tara Westover - 2018

A Memoir







By: Tara Westover

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 02-20-18

Language: English

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Religious

Publisher: Random House Audio

Format: mp3 64/48 stereo







Number one New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe best seller



Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review



One of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year



Bill Gates’s Holiday Reading List



Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Award in Autobiography



Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book



Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award  



Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize



Named one of Paste’s Best Memoirs of the Decade



Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • BookRiot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library



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 University



Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was 17 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 Tara’s 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 she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.



“Beautiful and propulsive.... Despite the singularity of [Tara Westover’s] 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?” (Vogue)



“Westover 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 Review)



©2018 Tara Westover (P)2018 Random House Audio



Critic Reviews



“A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.” (O: The Oprah Magazine)



“Beautiful and propulsive... [Tara Westover’s] voice is so sui generis it feels in debt to no one.... And despite the singularity of her 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?” (Vogue)



“An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. It’s even better than you’ve heard.” (Bill Gates)



“Heart-wrenching... a beautiful testament to the power of education to open eyes and change lives.” (Amy Chua, The New York Times Book Review)











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