Tara Westover - "Educated"

Immensily gripping rooted in autobiography story of a girl growing up in a conservative Mormon family. Particularly how her dad assigns every action to God and his angels, how he hurls iron bars and other heavy objects in the junkyard towards the pile where his daughter stood, not caring whether the thrown junk would hit her "because angels guide us". Or how she got pierced by metal and fell down. How twice they crashed with their car after driving at night. The feeling I had when she described how she didn't know the word "holocaust", or how her brother kept dominating the family. It was gripping until the very end. For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook's dense passages, but terms like "civic humanism" and "the Scottish Enlightenment" dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them.