The learner

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Tara Westfer is living proof that some people are invincible. Her new book, *The Educated*, is heartbreaking, then captivating, and is arguably the best memoir in recent years about overcoming the limitations of birth and environment to a better life.

USA TODAY

This story is wonderful as it is; it may be just a probe into a part of extreme American life, and it was not unusual for someone like her to realize it. Yet she describes her childhood with astonishing clarity, curiosity, and love, even for those who failed or seriously wronged her life in part. This is a book about being a stranger in a strange land.

THE NEWYORKER

A remarkable memoir, it tells the story of an ordinary Westfer's journey from a remote corner of the American West to one of the world's greatest seats of learning, but her educational triumph comes at the terrible cost of strained relationships with her family.

Her story, about fighting to be herself, is as old as the hills she came from.

THE TIMES

These memoirs are a stunning example of what you can achieve if you put your mind to something... an amazing and unique story.

BBC