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Content Warning: The source material and this guide contain instances and discussions of misogyny and physical, emotional, and domestic abuse. The source material contains racial slurs that are not reproduced in this guide.
The Prologue opens with Tara Westover describing the landscape of her family’s Idaho farm and the open land surrounding it. In this section of the memoir, Westover is 7 years old. Young Westover thinks about her family down in the house below as she sits up on the mountain and looks at the world around her. She imagines her mother making bran pancakes and her brothers testing the weather. Although she is only 7, she realizes that her family is different from other families because she and her six siblings do not go to school. They have also never been to a hospital and have no birth certificates. According to the government, Westover says, they “do not exist” (9).
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