Reading a shockingly good nonfiction book about a subject that I don't really care about

Was in the mood for a nonfiction type book, so I picked up the last Pulitzer Prize winner for nonfiction: Toms River: A Story of Science And Salvation. Generally, the Pulitzer committee picks these weighty nonfiction tomes that examine some overarching societal issue through the lens of one specific incident or place or person, and this book was no exce…