She met several friends through her community theater participation, such as Charles, her first crush, and even spent time bonding with her older brother Shawn, who also had an interest in taking part in plays and hanging out downtown. She took music lessons and dance classes, but when Gene pulled her out of dance after deeming the recital costumes “whorish” (long, knee-length sweatshirts specially chosen so that Tara could participate), Tara turned to singing and theater. Faye began an essential oil business which would soon take off not just locally but nationally, and provide the family with enormous sums of money that would all be used in continual preparation for the End of Days.Īs a young girl, Tara worked in her father’s scrap yard but dreamed of living a normal life like the other children she met in town. As a result, she developed intense migraines, memory loss, and turned to her own delusions for comfort-she believed that through a finger motion called “muscle testing,” she could determine whether one was sick or well and divine complicated questions straight from God himself. Tara’s mother, Faye, suffered brain damage during a car accident which was never treated. As a result of Gene’s isolating his family and denying them medical assistance in emergencies or education in anything other than the Bible and the ways of life on the harsh mountain, the Westover family suffered many terrible and debilitating accidents. Adopting a self-sufficient, survivalist lifestyle, Gene put his children to work at a young age in his scrap yard and hoarded supplies for the “Days of Abomination,” which he always believed were just around the corner. government was poisoning and corrupting its citizens through Godless education, Satanic medical practices, and surveillance methods designed to strip every citizen of their freedom. Growing up at the foot of a mountain called Buck’s Peak in a rural Idaho county, Tara’s life was ruled by her domineering father, Gene-a charismatic but paranoid and delusional man who believed that the U.S.
Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated, follows her journey from rural Idaho to the PhD program at Cambridge University as she struggles against her family’s devout, isolationist religious beliefs and fights for an education, learning along the way that to be educated is to learn much more about the world than what’s contained in books.
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