Educated by Tara Westover

did it occur to me that whatever damage was done that night might not have been done solely by ...

I fled the mountain with my bags half packed and did not retrieve anything that was left behind. I w ...

I pretended I hadn’t understood, but this only made him aggressive. Now he was hurling insults, snarling. ...

said there had never been any knife at all. “Talking to you,” she said, “your reality is so warped. It’ ...

not without irony: a few months before, Audrey had said that Shawn should be supervised around children. Now, ...

made to make sense. If I was sane, nothing could. This logic seemed damning. It was also a relief. I ...

began choking me, and my grandpa heard it and stopped him in time. But I know what I saw in his eyes. Her lett ...

It was a sunny September afternoon when I heaved my suitcase through Harvard Yard. The colonial arch ...

mother—so the idea that he would fly across the country to see a daughter he believed ...

many times in the years since the explosion, but it wasn’t until he came to Harvard, and I saw him set aga ...

hours later entered Palmyra. Near the grove, off the highway, there was a shimmering temple topped by a g ...

was the reason my ancestors had come to America. A twig snapped, my parents appeared. They sat, one o ...

Then it was their last night, and still I had not been reborn. Mother and I shuffled around the shared ...

“I didn’t need to have it tested,” she said. “I muscle-tested it. It was cancer. I cured it.” “We could ...

believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of ...

Someone was screaming, a long, steady holler, so loud it woke me up. It was dark. There were streetligh ...

I did not study. I tried to read but the sentences meant nothing. I needed them to mean nothing. I ...

IT WAS A BRIGHT WINTER morning when I arrived on Buck’s Peak. I remember the crisp smell of f ...

described the birth of Emily’s second child, a daughter, who had been born a month before. Mother had midwife ...

was shut. Mother was sliding biscuits into the oven when I entered the kitchen. I looked a ...