Educated - The Memoir By Tara Westover. " A heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir. " - USA TODAY The book Educated , is about Tara Westover the author herself who lived in Idaho a state in the north west of USA, she never attended school until she was 17. Till then, she and her siblings taught themselves. Her parents didn't believe in the government systems, they never went to the hospitals, the children were born at home with the help of midwives and treated with herbal medicines when injured. There were no birth certificates issued nor there were much documents of the family's existence. Tara was the youngest of her 7 siblings, one of her brothers Tyler, urged her to clear the entrance exam to get her enrolled in the school,