Educated: A Memoir

“Featured in Obama's 2018 year-end list. Westover grew up in rural Idaho in an isolationist family that rejected medicine and formal schooling; this is the story of how she educated herself into Cambridge and Harvard. Obama noted it as one of the most extraordinary memoirs he had read.”

“Obama has cited Westover's memoir in interviews as a book about the gap between where you come from and where your education takes you. Westover's story of growing up in a survivalist family and eventually reaching Cambridge resonates with Obama's own writing about being the first in rooms where people like her weren't expected.”

“Tara Westover's debut memoir was one of Oprah's most enthusiastic selections in recent years. She described it on her Instagram (which now serves as the club's primary announcement channel) as a book she couldn't stop thinking about for weeks.”

“Tara Westover's memoir was an early club selection that drew Witherspoon for the same reasons it drew many readers: a woman reconstructing herself entirely without the scaffolding of the family or the education that shape most coming-of-age stories.”