the westover collection - educated: a memoir  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. <br>