Educated: A Memoir

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • BookRiot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library

An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

“Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Tara Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue

“Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.”—The New York Times Book ReviewAmazon Editors’ #1 Pick for the Best Book of 2018: Tara Westover wasn’t your garden variety college student. When the Holocaust was mentioned in a history class, she didn’t know what it was (no, really). That’s because she didn’t see the inside of a classroom until the age of seventeen. Public education was one of the many things her religious fanatic father was dubious of, believing it a means for the government to brainwash its gullible citizens, and her mother wasn’t diligent on the homeschooling front. If it wasn’t for a brother who managed to extricate himself from their isolated—and often dangerous–world, Westover might still be in rural Idaho, trying to survive her survivalist upbringing. It’s a miraculous story she tells in her memoir Educated. For those of us who took our educations for granted, who occasionally fell asleep in large lecture halls (and inconveniently small ones), it’s hard to grasp the level of grit—not to mention intellect—required to pull off what Westover did. But eventually earning a PhD from Cambridge University may have been the easy part, at least compared to what she had to sacrifice to attain it. The courage it took to make that sacrifice was the truest indicator of how far she’d come, and how much she’d learned. Educated is an inspiring reminder that knowledge is, indeed, power. –Erin Kodicek, Amazon Book Review

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书名：Educated: A Memoir

#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE 畅销书《纽约时报》评选为年度十大最佳图书之一。《纽约时报》书评·比尔·盖茨：美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马最喜欢的年度书籍之一的假期阅读清单美国国家图书评论界约翰·伦纳德最佳第一书奖入围名单·卡内基卓越奖章入围名单

被评为年度最佳图书之一 The Washington Post • O：《奥普拉》杂志 • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • 《旧金山纪事报》 • 卫报 • 经济学人 • Financial Times • Newsday • 纽约邮报 • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • 图书馆期刊 • 库阅读量 • BookRiot ·帕梅拉·保罗，KQED·纽约公共图书馆

一本令人难忘的回忆录讲述了一个年轻女孩的故事，她离开了她的生存主义家庭，继续在剑桥大学获得博士学位

塔拉·韦斯特奥弗出生于爱达荷州山区的生存主义者家庭，17岁时她第一次踏上教室。她的家人与主流社会如此隔绝，以至于没有人确保孩子们接受教育，当塔拉的一个哥哥变得暴力时，也没有人干预。当另一个兄弟考上大学时，塔拉决定尝试一种新的生活。她对知识的追求改变了她，把她带到了海洋和大陆，哈佛和剑桥大学。只有这样，她才会怀疑自己是不是走得太远了，是否还有回家的路。

“美丽而又有推进力。。。尽管[塔拉·韦斯特弗]的童年很奇特，但她的书提出的问题是普遍存在的：我们应该给我们所爱的人多少自己？我们要背叛他们多少才能长大？“Vogue

“不知何故，韦斯特奥弗不仅捕捉到了她无与伦比的超凡教养，还让她目前的处境显得平淡无奇，并引起了其他许多人的共鸣。”《纽约时报》书评《亚马逊编辑》2018年度最佳图书的最佳选择： 塔拉·韦斯特奥弗不是你的花园式大学生。当历史课上提到大屠杀时，她不知道那是什么(不，真的)。这是因为她直到17岁才看到教室的内部。公立教育是她狂热的宗教父亲怀疑的众多事情之一，他认为这是政府给容易上当的公民洗脑的一种手段，而她的母亲在在家上学方面并不勤奋。如果不是一个兄弟设法从他们与世隔绝的世界中解脱出来，韦斯特弗可能仍然在爱达荷州的乡下，试图从她的生存主义教育中幸存下来。她在回忆录中讲述了一个神奇的故事 Educated。对于我们这些认为教育是理所当然的人来说，他们偶尔会在大的演讲厅(以及不方便的小演讲厅)里睡着，对于我们来说，很难把握韦斯特弗所做的事情所需的毅力–更不用说智力了。但最终从剑桥大学获得博士学位可能是容易的部分，至少与她为了获得博士学位而不得不牺牲的东西相比是这样。做出这种牺牲所需要的勇气是她走了多远，学到了多少东西的最真实的指标。 Educated 是一个鼓舞人心的提醒，知识确实就是力量。 &#8211；Erin Kodicek，亚马逊书评