882: Tara Westover - Author of "Educated: A Memoir" Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We are excited to release our interview with Tara Westover, author of the New York Times bestseller “Educated.”
“[A] searing debut memoir… Westover recounts her upbringing with six siblings on an Idaho farm dominated by her father…who tried to live off the grid, kept four children (including the author) out of school…and stockpiled supplies and guns for the end-time…When she finally escaped the toxic atmosphere of dogma, suspicion, and patriarchy to attend college and then grad school at Cambridge, her identity crisis precipitated a heartbreaking rupture. Westover’s vivid prose makes this saga of the pressures of conformity and self-assertion that warp a family seem both terrifying and ordinary.”
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| 0:57.0 | So what was going on in your personal spiritual life? |
| 1:02.0 | You know, I remember as a teen, having these seminary teachers, |
| 1:06.0 | did you go to early morning seminary? |
| 1:08.0 | Did you go to seminary? |
| 1:10.0 | When I was right before I went to college, I went to a few, almost in rebellion. |
| 1:14.0 | My dad didn't want us doing anything that was at the high school. |
| 1:17.0 | So I went maybe four or five times. |
| 1:19.0 | But you didn't go to four years of seminary? |
| 1:22.0 | I went to like a couple and then my dad freaked out and I stopped. |
| 1:26.0 | Okay. |
| 1:27.0 | But you did get a religious instruction from your ward and from all those famous homie |
| 1:32.0 | being some scripture studies, right? |
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