Educated by Tara Westover

God to come to America and meet the prophet Joseph. They saved for the journey, but after two years they ...

outlet, and helped me buy a navy pantsuit and matching loafers. I didn’t own a handbag so Robin lent me ...

as if the three were synonyms. The curry arrived and I focused my attention on it. Mother had grown tired o ...

did just now, that to this day I have never been immunized. — MY INTERVIEW FOR THE Gates scholarship ...

“I’m looking forward to your graduation,” he said. “The Lord has a few choice rebukes for me to give th ...

could take me. I expected them to drop me at the curb, but Dad insisted that they walk with me ...

PART THREE ...

A stone gate barred the entrance to Trinity College. Cut into the gate was a small wooden door. I stepp ...

The lecturer began his presentation. He spoke calmly but moved through the material quickly, as if he assume ...

wing it to you.” “You’ll what it to me?” “Wing it,” she said. “Distance is nothing to living energy. I c ...

ourselves can free our minds. Then I picked up my phone and dialed. “I need to get my vaccinations,” I ...

call the family to order. To be the other was to be among those called. I knew my yearning was unnatura ...

the dump many years before. Thick rugs with intricate patterns covered half the floor, while the ot ...

— MOTHER WAS OVERWHELMED WITH holiday orders, so I passed my days on Buck’s Peak just as I had as a ...

his lungs had never fully developed. Had his tiny lungs collapsed, his breathing stopped? The story came out ...

hadn’t slipped on the ice and broken a leg, wasn’t freezing to death in a field. But he didn’t come. Twenty ...

The day before I returned to England, I drove seven miles along the mountain range, then turned on ...

bracelets. It was as if I had stepped through a mirror and was living a day in the life I might have had, ...

front door. I set to work on my dissertation, again choosing Mill as the topic. One afternoon near t ...

backdrop of their discourse, by refusing to worship at its altar as if it were a dead thing. On the th ...