Educated

Memoir. Tara grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She did not have a birth certificate until she was 9 years old. At 16, to escape her father’s radicalism and a violent older brother, she left home. What followed was a struggle for self-invention, a journey that gets to the heart of what education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes and the will to change it.