Educated by Tara Westover

like what was in the prophets, and that it was not male or female, not old or young; a kind of worth ...

“Maybe,” Tyler said. “But as long as you live under Dad’s roof, it’s hard to go when he asks ...

but it’ll do the trick.” Shawn fingered the thick steel, which I was sure he could tell was not cheap ...

In October Dad won a contract to build industrial granaries in Malad City, the dusty farm town on the ...

find new accounts, and he’d asked me to manage the business while he was gone. He taught me how to use h ...

mathematics practice test. I scanned the first page. It wasn’t that I didn’t know how to solve the equati ...

The misery began when I moved beyond the Pythagorean theorem to sine, cosine and tangent. I couldn’t grasp ...

handing me the paper. “All I know is, that’s the answer.” I walked back to the kitchen, comparing th ...

fine” or even “They expect we’ll lose him.” Anything but what she was saying, which was, “They don’ ...

prop himself against the pickup, then went back to work. The facts after this point are even more ha ...

“He’s asking for you,” she said. “You said he doesn’t recognize anyone.” “He doesn’t,” she said. “But the n ...

He lived on the sofa in the front room for two months. He was physically weak—it was all he ...

said I was the only one who could calm him, and I persuaded myself that that was true. Who better? I ...

There was a moment that winter. I was kneeling on the carpet, listening to Dad testify of Mothe ...

sure what to do. There was no precedent for this: my father had never visited my room before. He strode pa ...

— WITHOUT SHAWN AS FOREMAN, Dad’s construction business dwindled. I’d quit my job at Randy’s to look af ...

“Excuse me,” I said when she gave me mine. “What is this?” “It’s a bubble sheet. To mark your a ...

I watched him walk away and, mechanically, as if I weren’t making the decision, rerolled them. He retur ...

apartment, and even if I could the only apartments for rent were in town. Then I’d need a car. I ...

A few days later Dad came home with the most frightening machine I’ve ever seen. He called it the ...