Una educación / Educated: A Memoir (Spanish Edition)
Finalista del National Book Critics Circle 2018 – en español
Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2018 según en New York Times y más de 40 semanas en su lista de bestsellers.
Uno de los libros más importantes del año según BBC • Daily Express • Library Journal• Publishers Weekly • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR• Financial Times • The Economist • The Guardian • Newsday • Refinery29 • Real Simple • Bustle • Pamela Paul, KQED • Entertainment Weekly.
Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida.
«Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación.»
Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos trabajan con el padre, y su madre es curandera y única partera de la zona.
Tara tiene un talento: el canto, y una obsesión: saber. Pone por primera vez los pies en un aula a los diecisiete años: no sabe que ha habido dos guerras mundiales, pero tampoco la fecha exacta de su nacimiento (no tiene documentos). Pronto descubre que la educación es la única vía para huir de su hogar. A pesar de empezar de cero, reúne las fuerzas necesarias para preparar el examen de ingreso a la universidad, cruzar el océano y graduarse en Cambridge, aunque para ello deba romper los lazos con su familia.
Westover ha escrito una historia extraordinaria -su propia historia-, una formidable epopeya, desgarradora e inspiradora, sobre la posibilidad de ver la vida a través de otros ojos, y de cambiar, que se ha convertido en un resonante éxito editorial.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
National Book Critics Circle finalist 2018
One of the 10 New York Times Best Books 2018.
A Publisher Weekly Best Book 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times
“A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable.”—USA Today
“The extremity of Westover’s upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing.”—The New York Times Book Review
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 midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father’s junkyard.
Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent.
When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2018 según en New York Times y más de 40 semanas en su lista de bestsellers.
Uno de los libros más importantes del año según BBC • Daily Express • Library Journal• Publishers Weekly • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR• Financial Times • The Economist • The Guardian • Newsday • Refinery29 • Real Simple • Bustle • Pamela Paul, KQED • Entertainment Weekly.
Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida.
«Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación.»
Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos trabajan con el padre, y su madre es curandera y única partera de la zona.
Tara tiene un talento: el canto, y una obsesión: saber. Pone por primera vez los pies en un aula a los diecisiete años: no sabe que ha habido dos guerras mundiales, pero tampoco la fecha exacta de su nacimiento (no tiene documentos). Pronto descubre que la educación es la única vía para huir de su hogar. A pesar de empezar de cero, reúne las fuerzas necesarias para preparar el examen de ingreso a la universidad, cruzar el océano y graduarse en Cambridge, aunque para ello deba romper los lazos con su familia.
Westover ha escrito una historia extraordinaria -su propia historia-, una formidable epopeya, desgarradora e inspiradora, sobre la posibilidad de ver la vida a través de otros ojos, y de cambiar, que se ha convertido en un resonante éxito editorial.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
National Book Critics Circle finalist 2018
One of the 10 New York Times Best Books 2018.
A Publisher Weekly Best Book 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times
“A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable.”—USA Today
“The extremity of Westover’s upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing.”—The New York Times Book Review
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 midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father’s junkyard.
Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent.
When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
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Educated by Tara Westover
329 pages
What’s it about?
Tara Westover was raised in the mountains of Idaho with her isolationist Mormon family. Tara never went to school, never saw a doctor, and was so isolated from the rest of the world that she had no idea how different her life was from most of America. When her older brother decides to study for the ACT and go to college, Tara glimpses a way into a different world. This is Tara's story.
What did it make me think about?
The incredible power of family- even if your family is way out there.
Should I read it?
I highly recommend this one. Tara Westover writes about the struggle to see herself as separate and apart from her family. If "we are the stories we tell ourselves" - then Tara had to write herself a new story. This book is about that journey.
Quote-
"Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs."
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Educated by Tara Westover
329 pages
What’s it about?
Tara Westover was raised in the mountains of Idaho with her isolationist Mormon family. Tara never went to school, never saw a doctor, and was so isolated from the rest of the world that she had no idea how different her life was from most of America. When her older brother decides to study for the ACT and go to college, Tara glimpses a way into a different world. This is Tara's story.
What did it make me think about?
The incredible power of family- even if your family is way out there.
Should I read it?
I highly recommend this one. Tara Westover writes about the struggle to see herself as separate and apart from her family. If "we are the stories we tell ourselves" - then Tara had to write herself a new story. This book is about that journey.
Quote-
"Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs."
If you liked this try-
All Over But the Shouting by Rick Bragg
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
This book was a page-turner. The first I've read in a while - I could hardly put it down over the past ten days or so it took me to read it.
One thing this story really drove home for me was that while the experience of growing up with controlling, gaslighting, fundamentalist parents who homeschool and have a lot of children may seem like my story, Tara and I have little in common. I was spared the violence, isolation, and total lack of education that she did. What we shared were small details - a mother obsessed with essential oils, a brother with a cruel temper - but the ending was painfully familiar and difficult to read. Nightmares about running and screaming, trying to escape a maze of the disaster that was our homestead - those I know well.
It gets five stars from me because Tara tells her story with everything she's got, and it is beautifully written. Educated is worth the read no matter your background.
One thing this story really drove home for me was that while the experience of growing up with controlling, gaslighting, fundamentalist parents who homeschool and have a lot of children may seem like my story, Tara and I have little in common. I was spared the violence, isolation, and total lack of education that she did. What we shared were small details - a mother obsessed with essential oils, a brother with a cruel temper - but the ending was painfully familiar and difficult to read. Nightmares about running and screaming, trying to escape a maze of the disaster that was our homestead - those I know well.
It gets five stars from me because Tara tells her story with everything she's got, and it is beautifully written. Educated is worth the read no matter your background.
A heart wrenching story made worse because it really happened. Mental health is such a predominate factor in stories like these as is extremism. Bravo for Tara to rise above her circumstances and excel in the world, a success not without sacrifice and loss.
I was provided an advance e-galley of this novel from the publisher through Netgalley.
Tara Westover's memoir is at times shocking, terrifying, and heartbreaking. But most importantly, it's inspiring, reminding readers that knowledge gives us the courage to pursue our individuality and the power to respect each other's paths. I highly recommend this one!
#popsugarreadingchallenge (prompt #15)
Tara Westover's memoir is at times shocking, terrifying, and heartbreaking. But most importantly, it's inspiring, reminding readers that knowledge gives us the courage to pursue our individuality and the power to respect each other's paths. I highly recommend this one!
#popsugarreadingchallenge (prompt #15)
A powerful (but difficult) memoir. Westover's writing is vivid and emotionally raw, capturing her extremely challenging upbringing and how she manages to break free from the pain of her past to learn to live and survive in the present.
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