CSPAN2 After Words Tara Westover Educated February 25, 2018
Turning towards our house on the hillside. My brothers are awake testing the weather i imagine my mother at the stove. With the steel toed boots. On the highway below the school bus rolled past without stopping. Im only seven but i understand that it is this fact more than any other that makes my family different. We dont go to school. It doesnt know about us. Four of my parents dont had birth certificates. We have no medical records because we were born at home. We never seen a dr. Or nurse. I will be issued a delayed certificate of birth. I do not exist. I did exist id grown up preparing for...