书名：Educated你当像鸟飞往你的山-英版
作者：Tara Westover
出版社名称：Windmill Books
出版时间：2018
语种：英语
ISBN：9780099511021
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：400（以实物为准）

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想像一个未曾接受过学校教育、与世隔绝的童年──这是Tara Westover的真实人生。来自虔诚的摩门教家庭，Tara和六个兄姊在爱达荷州的一个农场长大，她的父亲囤积补给品和枪枝为末日做准备，执意生活在供电网络外，未送包含Tara在内的四个孩子上学，并且极端不信任医疗机构，即便孩子遭受严重的肢体创伤或烧烫伤，也只能接受父母使用药草治疗。

当Tara的其中一个哥哥开始出现暴力倾向，父母不但未出声阻止，甚至任由Tara遭受这个哥哥的暴力虐待；当Tara另一位接受大学教育的兄长返家，并带来关于“外面”世界的消息，她决定不顾父亲反对，接受学校教育，展开全新的人生。她开始自学数学、文法及科学等，通过入学测验，进入杨百翰大学，之后还取得剑桥大学博士学位。异于常人的成长历程，虽带给她创伤，但也赠予她一双与众不同的眼，在学术之路上提出让人惊讶的论点与质疑，成为杰出的学者。

Tara其后与父母及多数兄姊断绝来往，她的身分认同危机造成了令人心碎的内在断裂，这部令人震撼的回忆录，不仅仅诉说了Tara自我探索与和解的过程，也揭露了在一个我们称之为进步、自由的文明国家的角落，仍然有着难以翻转的人生，同时深刻展现了教育的力量及其深远影响。

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.