Educated by Tara Westover

— DAD WAS STILL BEDRIDDEN when Shawn and Emily announced their engagement. It was suppertime, and the fam ...

of his gifts, because he’s a threat to Satan. That’s why he has problems. Because of his righteousness.” She sat up ...

anemic, underfed and underused, dwindled in obsolescence. I believed I could repair the damage—that n ...

I’d come to BYU to study music, so that one day I could direct a church choir. But that semester—the ...

“It is,” he admitted. “But it wouldn’t be if I were a woman. Women are made differently. They do ...

“One of the best in the world. I organize a study abroad program there for students. It’s highly compet ...

was known as Miracle Salve. At dinner my first night on the peak, Dad described the explosion as a tender me ...

quietly gave her own opinion. She had been transformed by the miracle—transformed into him. ...

had said the pregnancy would unfold according to God’s will. His will, it turned out, was that Emily gi ...

The first time I saw King’s College, Cambridge, I didn’t think I was dreaming, but only because ...

clothes, I wouldn’t know how to wear them. Dr. Kerry appeared and announced that we’d been invite ...

we came to this height. Now they are uncomfortable, on edge. You seem to have made the opposite jour ...

chairs and a wooden table. I could hear the blood pounding behind my ears as I sat down. Profes ...

— FOR TWO MONTHS I had weekly meetings with Professor Steinberg. I was never assigned readings. We read ...

I finished the essay and sent it to Professor Steinberg. Two days later, when I arrived for our next mee ...

I imagined myself in Cambridge, a graduate student wearing a long black robe that swished as I strode ...

Dr. Kerry said he’d been watching me. “You act like someone who is impersonating someone else. And it’s ...

clothes. But I am still Tara Westover. I have done jobs no Cambridge student would do. Dress us an ...

The program ended and I returned to BYU. Campus looked the way it always had, and it would have been ...

Brigham Young had had fifty-five wives and fifty-six children. The church had ended the temporal pra ...