An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl
who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD
from Cambridge University 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 in her father's
junkyard.
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor