Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
First published 2018
Tara Westover was raised in an isolated, survivalist Mormon household, never stepping foot in a classroom. But her thirst for knowledge compels her to leave home at 17 and enroll in college, a radical leap that pits her newfound academic ambitions against her family's paranoid suspicion of the outside world. As Tara navigates daunting academic and cultural challenges, she must grapple with her loyalty to kin and the pull of her own mind's boundless potential.
Genres: family-life, coming-of-age, autobiography, education, memoir, biography-memoir, academia, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Idaho, United States
352 pages · Hardcover · Random House