Educated : memoir /

Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a...

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Autore principale: Westover, Tara (Autore)
Natura: Libro
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : Random House, 2018.
Edizione:First edition.
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