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Educated by Tara Westover: A Complete Summary "You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life." Overview Educated (2018) is the memoir of Tara Westover, who grew up in the mountains of rural Idaho in a family so isolated from mainstream society that she did not have a birth certificate until she was nine years old. Her father, Gene, was a Mormon fundamentalist and survivalist who believed the government was an agent of the Illuminati, that public schools were a tool of socialist indoctrination, and that the End of Days was imminent. Her mother, Faye, was an herbalist and unlicensed midwife. None of the seven Westover children attended school or saw a doctor. This is not a simple triumph-over-adversity story. It is a complex, often harrowing exploration of what happens when education forces you to see your family clearly -- and what you lose in the process. Westover did not just lack formal education; she lacked the basic framework most people use to interpret the world. She did not know what the Holocaust was, had never heard of...