Westover, Tara,
Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover. - First edition. - xv, 334 pages ; 25 cm
Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence and the churches -- My feet no longer touch the earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- "I'm from Idaho" -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for moving water -- If i were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation -- The hand of the almighty -- Tragedy -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the sun -- Four long arms, whirling -- Gambling for redemption -- The family, morality, and social science -- The princess -- Educated.
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
9780399590504 : $28.00 0399590501 : $28.00
2017037645
Westover, Tara--Family.
Women--Idaho--Biography.
Survivalism--Idaho--Biography.
Home schooling--Idaho--Anecdotes.
College students--United States--Biography.
Counter culture--Idaho.
Christian biography.
Idaho--Rural conditions--Anecdotes.
Idaho--Biography.
CT3262.I2 / W47 2018
270.092 B
Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover. - First edition. - xv, 334 pages ; 25 cm
Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence and the churches -- My feet no longer touch the earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- "I'm from Idaho" -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for moving water -- If i were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation -- The hand of the almighty -- Tragedy -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the sun -- Four long arms, whirling -- Gambling for redemption -- The family, morality, and social science -- The princess -- Educated.
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
9780399590504 : $28.00 0399590501 : $28.00
2017037645
Westover, Tara--Family.
Women--Idaho--Biography.
Survivalism--Idaho--Biography.
Home schooling--Idaho--Anecdotes.
College students--United States--Biography.
Counter culture--Idaho.
Christian biography.
Idaho--Rural conditions--Anecdotes.
Idaho--Biography.
CT3262.I2 / W47 2018
270.092 B