Educated. A Memoir Death Intoxicated by thick heat and

Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it

in this covetable book you will learn: – which artist’s work is stolen most often (Picasso) – names of artists’ pets: Fat Fat & Cous-Cous (Louise Nevelson’s cats)

The New York Times bestseller and the definitive portrait of Kurt Cobain–as relevant as ever

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this is an end-of-life account that no reader is ever likely to forget

Educated. A Memoir Death Intoxicated by thick heat andTara 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. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even