As part of our Reading for Diversity series the Library is teaming up with BookSoc to read and discuss first generation university graduate Tara Westover’s international best -selling memoir ‘Educated’.  

Westover grew up in rural Idaho preparing for the End of the Days. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She didn’t even have a birth certificate until she was nine years old. At sixteen, to escape her father's radicalism and a violent older brother, Tara left home, deciding to educate herself. What followed was a struggle for self-invention taking Tara far from home to Harvard and Cambridge.

Westover’s memoir is an extraordinary account of the struggle for self-invention that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers - the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

The Library has provided digital and print copies of the book and it is also available to purchase from most major book retailers. Book Soc also has a limited number of print copies available. 

The discussion group will be held in the Digital Commons on Level 1 of the Information Commons.