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Author(s): Tara Westover

For readers ofThe Glass CastleandWild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future

#1 International Bestseller

Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school.

Westovers mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didnt have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in schooleverand she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought.

Review(s):
This remarkable story of triumphing over a survivalist upbringing is fit to stand alongside the great modern memoirs . . . Powerful . . . a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination.
Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable .. .a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir.
Memoirs of difficult childhoods have a high bar to cross these days, but Westovers struggle to make sense of the world and of her upbringing sails right over.
Astounding . . . Westover examines her childhood with unsparing clarity, and, more startlingly, with curiosity and love, even for those who have seriously failed or wronged her.
Extraordinary.
A powerful story of triumph and perseverance.
Incredible . . .a powerful book . . .beautiful.
The extremity of Westovers upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing.
Jaw dropping.
Fascinating . . . this book is a testament to willpower and freedom in knowledge.

LibraryReads #1 Pick, ALA Alex Award, Indie Choice Awards, PEN/Jean Stein Award, Wellcome Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Washington Post Best Book, TIME Magazines Best Nonfiction Books of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Book, Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Indigo Best Books of the Year, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, American Library Associations 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers for Non-Fiction, Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, John Leonard Award for Best First Book, Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year, IBW Book Award, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Indigo’s Best Books of the Decade

ISBN:9781443452489