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An memorable memoir about a youthful girl who, kept out of college, leaves her survivalist family members and continues on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the very first time she set feet in a class room. Her family was so isolated from mainstream culture that there was no one to guarantee the kids received an education, no one to intervene when among Tara’s old brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into university, Tara decided to try a new kind of existence. Her search for understanding transformed her, acquiring her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge College or university. Only after that would she question if she’d journeyed too much, if there was still a way home.

“Beautiful and propulsive . Regardless of the singularity of [Tara Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are common: Just how much of ourselves should we share with those we love? And just how much must we betray them to grow up?”-Vogue

“Westover provides somehow managed not only to fully capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to create her current situation seem not exceptional in any way, and resonant for many others.”-The New York Times Book Review