Tara Westover on Leaving the Battlefield

Apr 1

“That whole other future vanished, but it vanishing did not mean that I didn’t still believe in it pretty deeply and kept trying to make it come to pass. The fact that I had been so close to having it made me believe in it.”

Tara Westover’s memoir Educated debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the LA Times Book Prize, PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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