{"id":44030,"date":"2018-06-12T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44030"},"modified":"2018-07-20T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:58:13","slug":"educated-tara-westover-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/educated-tara-westover-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Educated by Tara Westover [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43988\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Educated-Tara-Westover-BookDragon-526x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Educated-Tara-Westover-BookDragon-526x800.jpg 526w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Educated-Tara-Westover-BookDragon.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/>As the youngest of seven children born to a junkyard-tending father and midwife-herbalist mother in remote Idaho,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tarawestover.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tara Westover<\/a> realizes at age 7 that the single fact \u201cthat makes [her] family different: we don\u2019t go to school.\u201d Her family espouses Mormonism, although their practices tend toward isolated fundamentalism. Her father&#8217;s distrust of government, education, and doctors meant Westover didn&#8217;t have a birth certificate, medical records, or school records.<\/p>\n<p>Neglect and abuse were common, especially at the fists of one of her older brothers. Encouraged by another brother who got out, Westover begins the process of getting &#8220;educated&#8221; when she entered her first-ever classroom at 17 as a freshman at Brigham Young University. Basic history \u2013 the Holocaust, the civil rights movement \u2013 was yet unknown to her. Once begun, she progresses to Cambridge, Harvard, and back to Cambridge where she earns a history PhD.<\/p>\n<p>Narrator Julia Whelan embodies Westover&#8217;s steely, almost detached resolve, maintaining modulated control even amid desperate, dangerous situations \u2013 broken bones, third-degree burns, gruesome accidents. She reserves her growls and bellows for the Westover men determined \u2013 yet who fail \u2013 to keep their women down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: A Mormon metamorphosis memoir is such a rarity that readers will undoubtedly be drawn to getting <em>Educated<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: modified from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2018-06-15-4362536.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media, <em>Library Journal<\/em>, June 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the youngest of seven children born to a junkyard-tending father and midwife-herbalist mother in remote Idaho,\u00a0Tara Westover realizes at age 7 that the single fact \u201cthat makes [her] family different: we don\u2019t go to school.\u201d Her family espouses Mormonism, although their practices tend toward&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,107,60,20,6535],"tags":[84,6608,22,58,7923,10,149,70,39,55,44,7924],"class_list":["post-44030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-memoir","category-nonethnic-specific","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-coming-of-age","tag-educated","tag-family","tag-gender-inequality","tag-library-journal","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-religious-differences","tag-siblings","tag-tara-westover"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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