Educated by Tara Westover

I thought he’d say I was lying but he didn’t. He accepted almost immediately the reality I’d spent a year d ...

thought of the girl who, knowing nothing beyond her junkyard and her mountain, had stared at a screen, watching ...

I was failing my PhD. If I had explained to my supervisor, Dr. Runciman, why I was unable to work, he would h ...

aggressive. He’d shouted at Tyler that if he brought this up again, he would be disowned, then he’d h ...

dangerous. The letter was a kind of voucher, a pass that would admit him back into the family. I c ...

them. What is the proper arrangement of words? How do you craft an apology for weakening someone’s ties ...

did it discount the contribution Mormonism had made in grappling with the questions of the age. Instead, ...

It was spring when I arrived in the valley. I drove along the highway to the edge of town, then pulled ...

grandparents loved their daughter. I was sure they had believed her account of me. So I had surrendered ...

rest of my life. The past, she wrote, whatever it was, ought to be shoveled fifty feet under ...

later learned, Angie filed for unemployment benefits, and when the Department of Labor called my parents ...

Grandpa had done. It was clear that she had heard much about me from my mother and father in the past f ...

Do you believe what Dad says about me? I wanted to ask. Do you believe I’m dangerous? But I didn’t. Luke ...

husband. For a moment it seemed pointless, this annual pilgrimage to a home that continued to reject me, an ...

When I was a child, I waited for my mind to grow, for my experiences to accumulate and my choice ...

It was the only way I could love him. When my father was in my life, wrestling me for control of that ...

For Tyler ...

To my brothers Tyler, Richard and Tony I owe the greatest debt for making this book possible, first ...

Certain footnotes have been included to give a voice to memories that differ from mine. The notes ...

bathtub, administering a homeopathic for shock. What I take from this is a correction, not to my memor ...