Educated
A Memoir
by Tara Westover
Recommended by 11 notable people, including Bill Gates and Barack Obama
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Recommended by 15 sources and appears in Memoir, Autobiographies, and Books Recommended by Bill Gates.
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling homecanned peaches and sleeping with her "headforthehills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's ...
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Recommended by 15 sources and appears in Memoir, Autobiographies, and Books Recommended by Bill Gates.
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