![]() “It would be many years before I would understand what leaving that day had cost him, and how little he had understood about where he was going…Tyler stepped into a void. Her mother becoming a midwife was just one of many byproducts of the endless pursuit of self-reliance and deep skepticism of the government. Tara’s father controlled the actions and narrative of the family, centered around an idea that they should never rely on the government. There was nothing he more than our being dependent on the Government.” Midwifery had been Dad’s idea, one of his schemes for self-reliance. “It would be past dusk by then-that moment just before night sets in, when the landscape is visible only as darkness and lighter darkness, and you feel the world around you more than you see it.”Ī beautiful way of describing that brief moment after dusk and before total darkness. Education liberated her mind, but she lost her family in the process.Īccess My Searchable Collection of 100+ Book Notes ![]() She did not enter a classroom until the age of 17 and went on to study at Cambridge and Harvard. ![]() This is the story of Tara Westover, a woman born in Idaho to survivalist parents who viewed hospitals, schools, and the government as evil. ![]()
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