A Jazzy Little Book Club

Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

To Register-
for the book club please call the NSC office at 816-452-4536 and ask for TJ. The Book Club will be held via conference call. We will contact you with the meeting number and password to join the book club.

Book Pick Up-
Call Mid-continent Public Library, Antioch branch at 816-454-1306 and tell them you are with the Jazzy Little Book Club at Northland Shepherd’s Center. The address to Antioch Mid-continent Public Library is 6060 N Chestnut, Gladstone, MO 64119. Curb side pick up is available.