That Mean Old Yesterday by Stacey Patton

Review written by a cozy specialist (September 2020): You have to have a cozy reading area and be wearing something really cozy to sit with the rawness of this book. The author holds no punches when describing the events that led up to the night she appeared at her childhood home with a gun. She’ll teach you a thing or two about resilience. 

“A coming-of-age memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who survived a tyrannical upbringing by her adoptive parents describes the fiercely religious belief system of her abusive mother, her determination to acquire an education as a means of escape, and the disadvantages that challenged her survival.”