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-th...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.