This is not a story for the faint hearted. But one of the best you will ever read if you can handle the incest, abuse, mental illness and gun violence…

If there was ever a book that describes the shame connected to sexual abuse and how it can destroy a man, this is the one.

Was it a love story or was she being groomed? Adult Vanessa needs to believe that the love affair she had as a 13 year old student with her 45 year old professor was. If not her entire life story changes and she becomes a sexual abuse victim.

A universal story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked.

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.