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Book Club in a Box : Educated, Tara Westover

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Summary
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. If there was still a way home. EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted, from her singular experience, a universal coming-of-age story, one that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers - the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
10 volumes (xi, 385 pages, 23 cm)
Note
  • “10 volumes, 3 information sheets (current terms and conditions, discussion questions, tips to run a book club) in a plastic tub with lid.”
  • First published in the USA by Random House in 2018
Contents
  • 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 in the churches
  • My feet no longer touch 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 then farce
  • 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
  • Family
  • Watching the buffalo
  • Educated
Isbn
9781786330512
Instance
Label
Book Club in a Box : Educated
Title
Book Club in a Box
Title remainder
Educated
Statement of responsibility
Tara Westover
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. If there was still a way home. EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted, from her singular experience, a universal coming-of-age story, one that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers - the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
NJB
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Westover, Tara
Dewey number
B
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Westover, Tara
  • Westover, Tara
  • Idaho
  • Mormon women
  • Women
  • Survivalism
  • Subculture
  • Mormon fundamentalism
  • Women college students
  • Christian biography
  • Mormon women
  • Adult children of dysfunctional families
  • Women
  • Adult children of dysfunctional families
  • Home schooling
  • Survivalism
  • Students
  • Ex-cultists
  • Victims of family violence
  • Idaho
  • Idaho
Target audience
adult
Label
Book Club in a Box : Educated, Tara Westover
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • “10 volumes, 3 information sheets (current terms and conditions, discussion questions, tips to run a book club) in a plastic tub with lid.”
  • First published in the USA by Random House in 2018
Accompanying material
3 information sheets.
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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 in the churches -- My feet no longer touch 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 then farce -- 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 -- Family -- Watching the buffalo -- Educated
Control code
000062141879
Dimensions
in plastic box 35 x 28 x 14 cm. +
Extent
10 volumes (xi, 385 pages, 23 cm)
Isbn
9781786330512
Isbn Type
(hardback)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)990636570
Label
Book Club in a Box : Educated, Tara Westover
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • “10 volumes, 3 information sheets (current terms and conditions, discussion questions, tips to run a book club) in a plastic tub with lid.”
  • First published in the USA by Random House in 2018
Accompanying material
3 information sheets.
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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 in the churches -- My feet no longer touch 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 then farce -- 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 -- Family -- Watching the buffalo -- Educated
Control code
000062141879
Dimensions
in plastic box 35 x 28 x 14 cm. +
Extent
10 volumes (xi, 385 pages, 23 cm)
Isbn
9781786330512
Isbn Type
(hardback)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)990636570

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