Educated - Tara Westover #Thriller AND TIME MAGAZINE

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so do her feelings

to devastating effect

their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having

learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies

Educated - Tara Westover #Thriller AND TIME MAGAZINEara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. 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". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even