Autobiography and memoir Educated by Tara Westover review – escape from a Mormon fundamentalist family A coming-of-age memoir that chronicles a young woman’s efforts to study her way out of a tough childhood in Idaho and find herself through books Tara WestoverWe hear a lot about the edges of the US these days. Tara Westover’s memoir is about being from just such a place and people. She was born to Mormon fundamentalist parents in Idaho, the youngest of seven. Her father Gene was the prophet of their small family, convinced the world was going to end at the stroke of the millennium. That all these activities appear somewhat contrary to Mormon religious doctrine is something Westover never explicitly addresses.

Source: The Guardian February 14, 2018 10:52 UTC