Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.Įducated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University.
There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. The 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 an older brother became violent. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father’s junkyard. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills” bag. Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. “The extremity of Westover’s upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing.”- The New York Times Book Review “Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable. “A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.”- O: The Oprah Magazine
Todos trabajan con el padre, y su madre es curandera y única partera de la zona. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Uno de los libros más importantes del año según BBC Ĭómo una educación puede salvar una vida. Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2018 según en New York Times y más de 40 semanas en su lista de bestsellers. Finalista del National Book Critics Circle 2018 – en español