Educated: A Memoir

Phenomenal and upsetting and hopeful and heartbreaking, all at once. (Content warning for physical and emotional abuse, along with some pretty intense descriptions of injuries, though I don't think any of it was gratuitous or unnecessary.) This book is so compelling and intense. Totally lives up to all the hype around it, which is hard to do. It's simply incredible, clear-eyed and so well-written, never wallowing in the strangeness of the story, which makes it all the more fascinating and believable. Even if this isn't normally your sort of book (it is mine - for some reason I love nonfiction about fundamentalism) you should read this. It's not fun, per se, but it's wonderful nonetheless.