Educated, by Tara Westover
The youngest of seven children, I was brought up to be a good Mormon wife, modest and subservient, an herbalist and illegal midwife like my mother, who won’t speak to me now that I’m Dr. Tara Westover. I miss my family and the mountains overlooking our Idaho valley, but I don’t miss working in Dad’s junkyard or being called a whore or enduring my brother’s bone-breaking tortures in memoir EDUCATED. Now that I’m twenty-seven, an unschooled child with a PhD from Cambridge, I don’t feel ashamed to be myself. I no longer feel ignorant or helpless. I feel educated.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch that I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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