In The Company of Strangers (Talonbooks) by Mary Meigs remains one of the best, if not the very best, book(s) of the decade. If you read nothing else this year, read this one.
And a sort of current ran through you when you saw it, a visceral, uncontrollable response. A physical resistance to the silence
The large supply of nine-volt batteries suddenly made sense
Review of "Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk" by Kathleen Hanna