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.

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is the author of the no. 1 New York Times best seller Educated. In this issue, we share highlights from her conversation with the members of the Masthead Book Club. September’s book-club ...

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 ...