Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and the blood test that never worked; Carreyrou's reporting.
Isaacson's authorised biography from forty interviews; the reality distortion field.
Cheryl Strayed walks 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail after her mother's death.
The Joads drive from the Dust Bowl to California; Steinbeck's angriest and best.
Oedipa Maas and a secret postal system; Pynchon in 150 pages.
George and Lennie and the farm they will never have; a hundred pages every school reads.
Cain and Abel in the Salinas Valley across two generations; Steinbeck's own favourite.
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