Tara Westover · 2018 · exile

Tara Westover's 2018 memoir. Raised by survivalist parents on Buck's Peak in rural Idaho, kept from school and hospitals, she teaches herself enough to reach Brigham Young University - then Cambridge and Harvard. The journey from a mountain junkyard to the halls of two great universities is also a wrenching break from a family that cannot follow her out.

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   Buck's Peak

   The Idaho mountain where Tara grows up in a survivalist family, working the junkyard, kept from school and doctors, with no birth certificate and no idea of the world beyond.

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   Provo

   Brigham Young University, where the self-taught Tara arrives knowing almost nothing of history or culture, and begins the painful, exhilarating work of an education.

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   Cambridge

   The English university where a fellowship takes her, a farm girl walking the courts of Trinity College, the distance from Buck's Peak now measured in worlds as well as miles.