Her Memoir Was a Huge Hit. She's Written a Follow-Up

Nearly 10 years after the publication of Educated, Tara Westover is returning with a second memoir in which she reflects on the fallout from her celebrated and controversial debut. Random House announced Thursday that Brothers and Sisters will come out on April 13. It's her follow-up to Educated, which was released in 2018 and became one of the most talked-about memoirs of its time, reports the AP. Westover's account of growing up as the youngest of seven siblings in a Mormon survivalist family in Idaho, the physical abuse allegedly suffered at the hands of an older brother, and her eventual break from her family spent more than two years on the New York Times' nonfiction bestseller list.

It was chosen by the National Book Critics Circle as a finalist in two awards categories and praised by Bill Gates and former President Obama, both of whom placed it on their lists of favorite books of 2018. In Brothers and Sisters, Westover, now 39, writes about her parents disputing her memories and her siblings denying events in Educated that they had previously confirmed. "Brothers and Sisters is a story of how memories are held in a family. How someone can know you are telling the truth but still say you are lying," the publisher's announcement reads in part. "Ultimately, it is a story of what it means to grow up—to outlive the story that made you."