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MCC Daily Tribune

Spring Reading Group to Discuss "Educated: A Memoir" by Tara Westover

This spring's reading group will be reading Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover. Westover's acclaimed, award-winning 2018 memoir describes her personal and educational journey. From Westover's official biography:

Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom, and after that first taste, she pursued learning for a decade. She graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.

You can listen to an interview with Westover on WBUR's Here and Now to get a sense of her voice and her experience.

Educated: A Memoir is broken into three parts. The reading group schedule will be as follows, with rooms available on the Brighton and Downtown campuses and participants connected by conference calls:

  • March 22: Part1
  • April 26: Part 2
  • May 24: Part 3

If you are able to join in this semester, please send me a note to let me know, but also know that you can always just drop in to discuss this powerful and poignant memoir about the process of becoming Educated.

Anne Kress
Office of the President
03/05/2019