Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life General Fiction Jewish athlete: Fredy Hirsch

Jewish athlete: Fredy Hirsch

She was going to get married so she could secure her daughter’s future

exploring the rippling fissures that such destruction inevitably leaves in its wake

Considering these elements and others

from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life General Fiction Jewish athlete: Fredy HirschAn epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Eartha competition with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid double biography is a passionate corrective (The New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice). [A] vibrant scientific saga . . . at once important, outrageous, enlightening, entertaining, enduring, and still evolving.Dava Sobel, author of Longitude FINALIST FOR