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NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments by National Public Radio
NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments by National Public Radio








NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments by National Public Radio

It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.Įducated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag".

NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments by National Public Radio

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom.










NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments by National Public Radio