1. Educated by Tara Westover
Genre: Biography
This extraordinary memoir is proof that truth really can be stranger than fiction. Raised by a fundamentalist Mormon family, who are convinced that the world will end at the turn of the millennium, Westover first enters a classroom at the age of seventeen, unable to read or write.
What follows is an incredible tale of perseverance and courage, as her thirst for knowledge pushes her from an illiterate teenager to a Cambridge PhD student. With plenty of depth, heart, and brilliant prose, Tara Westover proves herself as one of the strongest voices in contemporary memoir.
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