When does a child begin to understand that her family is different? For Tara Westover, the realization came in pieces — raw as an injury at first, then quickly covered over with emotional scar tissue.

Tara Westover is one of the most influential people of 2019. Her memoir 'Educated' offers a unique perspective on polarization in America, Bill Gates says. If you haven’t read Educated yet, chances ...

EDUCATED: A Memoir, by Tara Westover. Random House, 334 pp., $28. How many ways can a family be screwed up? Let us, via memoirs, count the ways. Bohemians surely know how to do it. In Jeanette Walls’ ...

I’ve always valued education, but I realized I never really appreciated how transformative it can be. “Educated,” the autobiography of historian and writer Tara Westover, tells the story of her ...

The May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club “Now Read This” is Tara Westover’s memoir “Educated,” about growing up in a Mormon survivalist family in rural Idaho. “Now Read This” is a ...

I just finished listening to Tara Westover’s riveting memoir, “Educated,” an account of her years growing up as the youngest of seven children, in a fundamentalist Mormon family in southeastern Idaho, ...

Tara Westover, author of the best-selling new memoir “Educated,” will join The Spokesman-Review’s Northwest Passages Book Club on May 17. Westover’s book chronicles growing up in Idaho with ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tara Westover's best-selling memoir "Educated" and Richard Powers' novel "The Overstory" are among the nominees for a $75,000 award presented by the literary and human rights ...

Tara Westover grew up on a remote Idaho mountain, the youngest of seven children in a fundamentalist Mormon family. “Four of my parents’ seven children don’t have birth certificates. We have no ...