Educated by Tara Westover

I remembered all the times I’d seen one of my brothers burst through the back door, howling, ...

frequent, so that she was shutting herself in the basement only two or three days a week. Then the h ...

adjustments to achieve specific fragrances and attributes. She worked with a pad and pen so she could record every ...

stood in silence for ten minutes, a human chain. When I think of that afternoon, what I remember ...

Mother began to muscle-test compulsively, unaware she was doing it, whenever she grew tired of a conversat ...

from them. Perhaps he was remembering Tyler. Perhaps he thought if he could just distract me for a few years ...

mostly compilations of the speeches, letters and journals of the early Mormon prophets. Their language was of ...

with the boom extended, tilt the forks so the scrap could slide out, raining down into the trailer wit ...

into the trailer with a tremendous crash. I was now free, but falling. I flailed my arms, willing them to ...

fingers of her right. Her eyes closed. Click click click. “There’s no tetanus,” she said. “The ...

It was a rainless summer. The sun blazed across the sky each afternoon, scorching the moun ...

welded in place to collect it. By noon, they had drained somewhere between thirty and forty cars. Luke had co ...

spreading fire through the sagebrush and wheat grass, which were baked and brittle from the parche ...

day before, then I carried the bin outside and sprayed it out with the garden hose. I knew I should clean ...

gaunt, defeated look on his face. Quiet now, Luke was resting, or as near to resting as he could b ...

make it through the next minute. When the pain in his lungs overtook the pain of the burn, he would rel ...

what I remembered first was the belt. Luke, I would think. You wild dog. I wonder, do you still wear ...

see it clearly, more clearly than if it were a memory. The cars are stacked and waiting, the ...

I wanted to get away from the junkyard and there was only one way to do that, which was the way Audrey had ...

Mary’s daughter every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning. Then Mary had a friend, Eve, who needed a bab ...