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Episode 477: Tara Westover

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Tara Westover is the author of Educated.

“I used to be so fearful. ... I was afraid of losing my family. Then, after I had lost them, I was afraid that I made the wrong decision. Then I wrote the book and I was afraid that was the wrong decision. Everything made me frightened back then, and I just—I don't have that feeling now.”

Show notes:

  • @tarawestover
  • tarawestover.com
  • 00:00 Educated (Random House • 2018)
  • 09:00 "I Am Not Proof of the American Dream" (New York Times • Feb 2022)
  • 21:00 A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan • Knopf • 2011)
  • 35:00 Nobel Lecture (Kazuo Ishiguro • 2017)
  • 36:00 The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel Van Der Kolk • Penguin • 2015)

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