Memoir

Educated by Tara Westover (Hutchinson) Tara Westover grew up in rural Idaho in the 1990s, but her life was unlike most other kids’. She never went to school, had no birth certificate until she was nine years old and no medical records, because her parents didn’t believe in conventional medicine. In this compelling memoir, Westover describes a life lived off the grid with radical survivalist parents. Such details are in themselves so unusual and vivid to make for a powerful yarn, but in her first book Westover reveals a gift for writing in an unsentimental chronicle that suggests another time and place but is so shockingly of the recent past.