Educated: A Memoir

once i was a couple chapters in i found this book impossible to put down. i (unfairly) expected a sensational account of the author's unusual childhood, and while there are definitely some gruesome passages, the author's reflections on the fallibility of memory in traumatic situations, the dissociative effect of decades of gaslighting, and her refusal to reduce any members of her family - even in their cruelest moments - to mere caricatures are what made this such a compelling and engaging read.