![]() She sat down with Vanity Fair to share some of her story, and her feelings about education and changing your mind. Westover still has a western twang in her voice, and is prone to voicing her thoughts out loud, showing her quick mind at work. Westover’s story is as much about her difficult childhood and what it’s like to grow up on fringe beliefs as it is about seeing the world through the eyes of a singular, intelligent, and observant person. ![]() How she made that disorienting jump is the subject of her memoir Educated, out now from Random House. ![]() She visits doctors, has a doctorate from Cambridge, and had a fellowship at Harvard University. Today, Westover lives in a flat in London. When Westover arrived, she fully believed she would return home eventually, marry, and live in the way her father intended. Eventually, she and a brother taught themselves enough math to attend Brigham Young University. Her father didn't believe in doctors or “government schools,” putting the children to work in a family-owned junkyard. They were isolated from other people, even her extended family, except for at church. ![]() In the early 2000s, Tara Westover was a preteen living in Idaho with her fundamentalist Mormon family. ![]()
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