Family and family values in the novel “Educated: a memoir” by T. Westover

This work is part of a comprehensive study of the novel “Educated: A memoir” by contemporary American writer T. Westover and contains the results of comprehension of one of its conceptual aspects. The aim of the study is to investigate the role of family and family values, represented in the novel. On the basis of biographical, hermeneutic, psychological, poetological and receptive methods and approaches the conditions and factors of the main character’s upbringing are revealed and described, the value orientations, religious beliefs, social behavior of her family members are analyzed, the traumatic nature of intrafamily relations is stated. The prospect of further research is connected to the analysis of the novel “Educated: A memoir” in the context of the tradition of the “educational novel”, as well as in the context of contemporary American literature, devoted to the problem of the relationship between “fathers and children”, intergenerational relations, self-determination and self-identification of the individual.