Educated: A Memoir

Author：Tara Westover

Publisher: Random House (2018/2/20)

精装: 352 pages

Language: 英语

ISBN: 0399590501

EAN: 9780399590504

Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 2.8 x 24 cm 

书籍简介

Tara初次踏入教室时已经17岁了。她出生于爱达荷州偏僻山区中的摩门教集聚地，他们是所谓幸存主义一族，相信摩门教启示录中末日降临的说法，拒绝教育，拒绝现代医学。Tara自出生以来没看过医生也不打疫苗，甚至没有出生证。Tara的母亲作过接生婆，有些生育和草药知识。全家赖以生存的，是父亲的废旧汽车部件回收站，六个孩子从小就在回收站帮工。

Tara成长在这样一个与世隔绝的环境中，从未受过教育，家中兄长出现暴力倾向，也无人干涉。 直到她另外一个哥哥独自离家上大学，并告诉了她大山之外的世界，Tara下定决心，要努力过上新的生活。她自学数学、语法、科学，参加ACT考试，并被杨百翰大学录取。在那里，她学习了心理学、哲学、政治和历史。对知识的渴求彻底改变了Tara，带她走入哈佛、剑桥，也让她和家乡亲人越走越远。

Educated记录了Tara一步步探索自我，叩问自我，终和自己和解的过程，也真正揭示了知识和教育的力量。

Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills” bag. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father’s junkyard.

Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The 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 an older brother became violent.

When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. 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.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story 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.

作者简介

Tara Westover was born in Idaho in 1986. She received her BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014. Educated is her first book.