Tara Westover is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. After that first encounter with education she pursued learning for a decade, graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and subsequently winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. LaRee Westover feels that she, like Robert Frost, has taken “the path less traveled,” and it has made all the difference. She has been a midwife. She has been a home schooling parent. She is a business woman, a wife, a mother, and grandmother. But at the heart of all she is and has been, she says, is a teacher.
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The family-run business also offers classes on the basics of essential oils which you can find on YouTube. Now before we go any further into this review, we will disclaim one thing: Yes, LaRee Westover is the mother of the bestselling author Tara Westover. If the name Tara Westover doesn't ring a bell, in 2018 Tara Westover released Educated which is a memoir recounting her overcoming her survivalist Mormon family. The first half of the memoir is a shocking and eye-opening recount of a childhood that is far from the norm. The book spent 119 weeks on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list.
Tara Westover grew up on an Idaho farm, being home-schooled, dismantling scrap metal and distilling herbal medicines. How she got away from her abusive family, got a doctorate at Cambridge, and learned that the Jew is not the devil incarnate, is the topic of her best-selling memoir 'Educated'. Below is my Educated by Tara Westover summary: The book is a memoir by a woman who was raised in the mountains of Idaho as a member of a survivalist Mormon family. Her mother was a midwife and natural healer, and her father ran a junkyard. In his free time, he was a religious fanatic preparing for surviving an apocalypse. “Educated” was written by Tara Westover. Taking a break from a recent class she was teaching as part of her successful business, Butterfly Expressions, Westover explains that she hopes her new book will encourage parents faced with the new normal of online, at-home schooling, that they can do more good than they know.
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Throughout the memoir, Tara recounts how her mother turned to herbalism to cure many of their (quite serious) injuries. As survivalist Mormons, the Westovers didn't believe in modern day medicine. The memoir recounts the beginnings of her mother's journey into herbalism, forming Westover oils, and how she eventually became successful enough to hold classes for other women in the area who also wanted to learn about herbalism.
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