I just finished listening to Tara Westover’s riveting memoir, “Educated,” an account of her years growing up as the youngest of seven children, in a fundamentalist Mormon family in ...

Because Tara Westover had never been allowed to go to school, the only history she had learned was the history her father taught her. "His perspective was my perspective," she says, and his fears ...

The top young adult book was “Aisle Nine” by Ian X. Cho, about an apocalypse happening on Black Friday, while the top ...

NEW YORK — Tara Westover’s bestselling memoir “Educated” and Richard Powers’ novel “The Overstory” are among the nominees for a $75,000 award presented by the literary and human rights organization ...

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