Educated by Tara Westover

I didn’t move. “Get over here,” he said. I stepped forward slowly, not blinking, watching the Shear as if ...

the fights they’d had before—this was unrestrained somehow, hateful. I’d never seen anyone yell at my father ...

shut it down, even though it cost him more to have his foreman salvaging than it would hav ...

Construction began on the milking barn in Oneida. Shawn designed and welded the main frame—the massive ...

Dad kept yelling. He said Shawn was lazy, that he didn’t know how to run a crew, didn’t underst ...

waiting for me to climb on. I took a step toward him, then remembered the math book on Grandma’s t ...

temple and down his right cheek, pouring over his ear and onto his white T-shirt. His eyes were closed, ...

Dwain was shouting, “Let’s go!” but I barely heard him. I was lost to panic. My thoughts wandered ...

Mother pacing and clicking her fingers, and Dad sitting motionless beneath a loud wall clock. The doctor gave ...

I checked my name. There was no mistake. Somehow—and a miracle was the only way I could account for it—I’d ...

find Dad eating a frozen supper. He hadn’t cooked it well and it was mush. The mood around him was charged, ...

mine. I noticed, though, when he came home for Christmas, that he was reading a book called Les Miséra ...

PART TWO ...

On New Year’s Day, Mother drove me to my new life. I didn’t take much with me: a dozen jars of h ...

be catching. Now there was one in my house. Shannon surveyed me with frank disappointment, taking in my b ...

— THE NEXT MORNING, I got on the bus going the wrong direction. By the time I’d corrected my mistake, th ...

underpinnings” and the writings of Cicero and Hume, names I’d never heard. In the first lecture, we were tol ...

The professor called on me, and I read the sentence aloud. When I came to the word, I paused. “I don’t ...

hand for the rest of the semester. — THAT SATURDAY, I SAT at my desk with a stack of homework. Ever ...

gentiles, on the one side or the other, but there was no foothold in between. The service ended and we filed ...