Educated - Tara Westover

Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover

Bios & Memoirs  Personal Memoirs

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's Summary

Number one New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe best seller

Washington Post and USA Today best seller

Long-listed for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence

President Barack Obama's 2018 summer reading

One of Time's Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far

One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year

PBS Newshour/New York Times Book of the Month

An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University 

"Beautiful and propulsive... Despite the singularity of [Tara Westover's] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?" (Vogue)

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her 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 one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

作者Tara Westover 出身在美国贫困小山村的一个摩门教家庭。没受过任何系统教育的她在17岁时通过自考被杨百翰大学（BYU）录取，后又因为出色的学术能力而获得剑桥大学的博士学位。她的第一本自传Educated: A Memoir连续数周登上纽约时报bestseller榜单第一名，入选比尔·盖茨2018推荐好书名单。