Where the Light Fell: A Memoir

Yancey is a well-known Christian writer and speaker, though it’s been years since he’s written anything new. I happened to see that he had a new memoir coming out last year before our Fall Book Preview and I was intrigued. I didn’t expect to be talking about it; I wondered if it would be a bit niche for our audience. But I just loved it. It’s so well done, and so timely, and so uncannily relevant to our times right now. I don’t believe you need to share Yancey’s faith to find this book fascinating; it’s an anthropological study as much as anything (though a very personal study, at that). Somehow gentle and scathing, at the same time, documenting his personal understanding of his family, and larger understanding of the society he was raised in. Serious Educated vibes, the Tara Westover memoir.