Educated

by

Tara Westover

The Indian Princess

The Westover clan makes their home in rural Idaho, in a valley at the foot of a mountain called Buck’s Peak. At the top of the mountain is a peak shaped in “the dark form…

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The Shear

“The most frightening machine [Tara has] ever seen,” what Gene Westover calls the Shear, is a “three-ton pair of scissors” with blades made of dense iron. The blades are “twelve inches thick and five…

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