Product details
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Feb. 20, 2018)
Language: English
Paperback: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 1443452483
ISBN-13: 978-1443452489
Item Weight: 381 g
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.24 x 22.86 cm
For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss, and the struggle for a better future
#1 International Bestseller
Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard, and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school.
Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a Ph.D. in intellectual history and political thought.
About the Author
TARA WESTOVER was born in rural Idaho in 1986. She received a BA in history from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil in intellectual history and political thought from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2009, and in 2010 she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she received a Ph.D. in history in 2014. She lives in England.
