0:00.0	You're listening to the Girl Next Door podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former next door
0:08.9	neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to come on in,
0:13.8	have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend. Hey friend. This episode is our spring book club meeting,
0:19.8	so we'll be spending the entire show discussing Tara Westover's best-selling and critically acclaimed memoir, educated.
0:27.6	We do book club episodes once each season, and to be in the book club, all you have to do is listen.
0:33.3	So we like to start book club by giving a little recap of what we read.
0:37.3	Here is the summary from the
0:38.8	author's website. Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to
0:45.2	survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling
0:49.9	home canned peaches and sleeping with her head for the hills bag. In the summer, she stewed herbs for
0:55.2	her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter, she salvaged in her father's junkyard.
0:59.8	Her father forbade hospital, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions,
1:05.4	side note of which there were many, even burns from explosions were all treated at home.
1:12.0	I'm going to put quotes around the treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there
1:17.7	was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when Tara's
1:22.1	older brother became violent. Then lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself
1:29.1	enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history,
1:34.1	learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil
1:37.7	rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents,
1:43.5	to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then
1:45.8	would she wonder if she traveled too far if there was still a way home. So, yes. I get like
1:53.3	tight in the chest even hearing that description. It is an incredible, incredible story. I will say
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