In the memoir titled Educated, Tara Westover recounts leaving her survivalist Mormon family in order to gain opportunities and broaden her understanding of the world through a college education. The novel cover’s graphic employs a clever use of size to portray a small figure, assumed to be Westover, hiking a mountain range within the shape of a pencil. What makes this image so effective is the idea that her freedom to explore and create would never have been possible without her schooling.