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We remember what we remember of our childhoods. Other family members remember what they remember.

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom, heard about the Holocaust or the Civil Rights movement.

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she helped her family stockpile home-canned food, stewing herbs in the summer with her mother, a midwife and healer, and salvaging metal in her father's junkyard in the winter.

Her father distrusted the medical community, so Tara never saw a doctor. Injuries and illnesses, both minor and severe, were treated at home with herbalism....