Key insights from
Educated: A Memoir
What you'll learn
How does a girl go from an almost entirely off-the-grid, survivalist existence in rural Idaho to become Dr. Westover and lose most of her family in the process?
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Tara’s survivalist Mormon family preserved unity and tradition at the cost of almost everything.
- 2 Tara found out what college was when she was 11, and her life would never be the same.
- 3 Tara entered university wondering what the Holocaust was and asserting Rosa Parks deserved to be arrested for stealing someone’s seat.
- 4 So deep was the brainwashing and misplaced sense of loyalty, that Tara second-guessed the severity of her brother’s abuse well into her twenties.
- 5 Estrangement from a rigid, cloistered family was disorienting and difficult, but Tara came out on the other side with unexpected wins.
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