Educated
Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist Mormon family in Idaho without formal education until she taught herself enough to gain entry to Cambridge became a defining memoir of the decade. Its exploration of the cost of escaping a family, and the meaning of education as liberation, is unforgettable.
Westover's own footnotes concede that family members remember key events differently, so you are trusting a memoir about how families distort the past. Structurally it cycles: junkyard injury, hospital refused, Shawn's violence, forgiveness, repeat, a few rounds past what the arc needs. And the education itself happens mostly offstage; she goes from no schooling to a Cambridge doctorate in a montage.
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
