Educated : a memoir
(Adult Book)
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Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2018].
Format
Adult Book
Edition
First Canadian edition.
ISBN
9781443452489 (pbk.) :
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xv, 332 pages ; 23 cm.
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Published
Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2018].
Edition
First Canadian edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781443452489 (pbk.) :
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"Tara Westover was seventeen 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 home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her fathers junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. 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 one of Taras older brothers became violent. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if shed traveled too far, if there was still a way home"--Publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Westover, T. (2018). Educated: a memoir (First Canadian edition.). HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Westover, Tara. 2018. Educated: A Memoir. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Westover, Tara. Educated: A Memoir HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Westover, Tara. Educated: A Memoir First Canadian edition., HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2018.
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