Educated: Tara Westover's Harrowing Autobiography: Book Insights on Educated by Tara Westover

*Tara Westover grew up in rural Idaho, cut off from the outside world – she had no birth certificate, no medical records and no formal education. 

*She worked alongside her brothers in her tyrannical father’s scrap metal junkyard, risking life and limb on a daily basis. 

*Westover’s decision to get away, to educate herself and discover a world beyond the isolation and abuse at home, eventually took her to college and on to unimaginable academic success at Cambridge and Harvard. 

*But at the same time, this life-changing education, and the new perspective it brought, strained her relationship with her family to breaking point.

Theme 1: Childhood - 0:29

Theme 2: Escape - 9:52

Theme 3: Educated and Confrontation - 19:10

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Westover, Tara. “Tara Westover Discusses Educated.” C-SPAN.org, www.c-span.org/video/?449746-14/tara-westover-discusses-educated.

Full Title: Educated: A Memoir

Year of Publication: 2018

Book Author: Tara Westover

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