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Didion went into Haight-Ashbury in 1967 and came back with a five-year-old on acid and children improvising a society in a vacuum. She rebuilt American nonfiction prose around the sound of her sentences.
Two seasons as a ranger at Arches in Utah, and Abbey renders the red rock with a naturalist's precision and turns his fury on the paved roads bringing cars into the parks.
Schooling deposits facts into students like coins into a bank, Freire argues, and that keeps the poor quiet. Real teaching starts from their own words. Only two social science books are cited more.
Mattie Ross, fourteen and a relentless Presbyterian bargainer, hires a one-eyed, hard-drinking marshal to hunt the man who shot her father. Portis gives her the funniest, most unbudging voice in American fiction.
"I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood," Watson begins, then narrates the race to DNA as gossip and rivalry, including Rosalind Franklin's X-ray image, shown to him without her knowing.
Rick Deckard hunts androids across a San Francisco emptied by fallout, separating them from people with a test for empathy. At home he keeps an electric sheep and is humiliated by it.
Makhaya crosses out of apartheid South Africa into a Botswana village and joins a cooperative, working against drought and a chief who needs the poor to stay poor. Head was a refugee herself.
Egypt expelled its Jews after Suez, and Roden, exiled in London, collected recipes from displaced Sephardi and Arab families and the histories behind them. English-speaking kitchens learned hummus, tabbouleh, and mezze from her.
On a rainy Stockholm night a gunman empties a submachine gun into a bus, killing a detective from Martin Beck's own squad. Sjöwall and Wahlöö make Swedish social democracy the real suspect.
A department store bear hunts the dark for the button missing from his overalls. Lisa buys him with money she saved herself, a Black girl in a 1968 picture book, drawn without comment.