Author Retraces Her Journey From Survivalist Childhood to Cambridge Ph.D.
As a girl, Westover says, “There wasn’t ever any question about what my future would look like: I would get married when I was 17 or 18, and I would be given some corner of the farm and my husband would put a house on it and we would have kids.”
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But Westover defied her family’s expectations when she enrolled in Brigham Young University at 17.
“I didn’t know anything,” Westover says of her first semester. “One of my first lectures, I raised my hand and asked what the Holocaust was because I had never heard of it.”
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