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[Page 3] Educated is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed. Copyright © 2018 by Second Sally, Ltd. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. RANDOM HOUSE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA NAMES: Westover, Tara, author. TITLE: Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover. DESCRIPTION: New York : Random House, [2018] IDENTIFIERS: LCCN 2017037645 | ISBN 9780399590504 | ISBN 9780399590511 (ebook) SUBJECTS: LCSH: Westover, Tara—Family. | Women—Idaho—Biography. | Survivalism—Idaho— Biography. | Home schooling—Idaho—Anecdotes. | Women college students—United States— Biography. | Victims of family violence—Idaho—Biography. | Subculture—Idaho. | Christian biography. | Idaho—Rural conditions—Anecdotes. | Idaho—Biography. CLASSIFICATION: LCC CT3262.I2 W47 2018 | DDC 270.092 [B]—dc23 LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2017037645 International ISBN 9780525510673 Ebook ISBN 9780399590511 randomhousebooks.com Book design by Barbara M. Bachman, adapted for ebook Cover illustration: Patrik Svensson v5.2 ep [Page 4] Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Author’s Note Prologue Part One Chapter 1: Choose the Good Chapter 2: The Midwife Chapter 3: Cream Shoes Chapter 4: Apache Women Chapter 5: Honest Dirt Chapter 6: Shield and Buckler Chapter 7: The Lord Will Provide Chapter 8: Tiny Harlots Chapter 9: Perfect in His Generations Chapter 10: Shield of Feathers Chapter 11: Instinct Chapter 12: Fish Eyes Chapter 13: Silence in the Churches Chapter 14: My Feet No Longer Touch Earth Chapter 15: No More a Child Chapter 16: Disloyal Man, Disobedient Heaven Part Two [Page 5] Chapter 17: To Keep It Holy Chapter 18: Blood and Feathers Chapter 19: In the Beginning Chapter 20: Recitals of the Fathers Chapter 21: Skullcap Chapter 22: What We Whispered and What We Screamed Chapter 23: I’m from Idaho Chapter 24: A Knight, Errant Chapter 25: The Work of Sulphur Chapter 26: Waiting for Moving Water Chapter 27: If I Were a Woman Chapter 28: Pygmalion Chapter 29: Graduation Part Three Chapter 30: Hand of the Almighty Chapter 31: Tragedy Then Farce Chapter 32: A Brawling Woman in a Wide House Chapter 33: Sorcery of Physics Chapter 34: The Substance of Things Chapter 35: West of the Sun Chapter 36: Four Long Arms, Whirling Chapter 37: Gambling for Redemption Chapter 38: Family Chapter 39: Watching the Buffalo Chapter 40: Educated Dedication Acknowledgments A Note on the Text About the Author [Page 6] The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. —VIRGINIA WOOLF I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing. —JOHN DEWEY [Page 7] T his story is not about Mormonism. Neither is it about any other form of religious belief. In it there are many types of people, some believers, some not; some kind, some not. The author