Educated by Tara Westover

who I owed how much, and whether there was anything in my room I could sell for ten or twenty dollars. ...

I BELIEVED THAT HUNDRED dollars was a sign from God. I was supposed to stay in school. I drove bac ...

“Obviously,” I said. We stood awkwardly for a moment, then I went to bed. The next morning, after D ...

amount next year.” I bought a new Sunday dress. I’d believed the money would be used to control me, but w ...

I had a thousand dollars in my bank account. It felt strange just to think that, let alone say it. A ...

tap. I felt the tremor of gunfire and heard myself shout. There was a thud as something heavy fell to ...

investigation, and the Senate had held hearings. Both had recommended reforms to the rules of ...

passed through his feverish brain, it had ceased to be a story about someone else and had become a story ab ...

I visited Buck’s Peak the weekend after I submitted my paper. I had been home for less than an hour ...

Nick and I were a couple from the beginning. He grabbed my hand the second time we met. When his ski ...

He left, but now I had another problem. I didn’t know how to go to a doctor. I called a friend from cl ...

strep and mono. “I’m taking penicillin,” I said. “I just wanted you to know.” She began talking rapidly bu ...

There’s a story I was told when I was young, told so many times and from such an early age, ...

lying in a heap, his brains dripping out of his head. She rushed him to town and they fitted him with a ...

— I DON’T KNOW WHY Dad was alone on the mountain that day. The car crusher was coming. I suppose he wanted t ...

authority of the man was such that she gave way. The dead skin was gently cut away and he was slathered ...

father. I know that when Mother had removed the gauze that morning, she’d found that his ears were ...

Once, an hour before dawn, his breath left him and I was sure it was the end: he was dead and would ...

by Dad’s bed, dripping teaspoons of water into his mouth with a medical dropper and feeding him puree ...

Dad didn’t leave his bed for two months unless one of my brothers was carrying him. He peed in a bottle, a ...