A memoir from the youngest daughter of a survivalist family in the mountains of Idaho describes her isolated upbringing and her eventual departure to get the education that was denied her. To say ...

In “Educated: A Memoir,” Tara Westover documents the journey that led her to learn about the outside world from which she’d been sheltered for so long. Raised in a devout Mormon home in the remote ...

Tara Westover grew up on a remote Idaho mountain, the youngest of seven children in a fundamentalist Mormon family. “Four of my parents’ seven children don’t have birth certificates. We have no ...