Must Reads: A teen's defiance, a serial killer's unsolved crimes and Nascar's uncertain future
Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. Nearly all the characters written about by national enterprise writer Eli Saslow are deeply flawed, whether they are drug addicts or white supremacists or hurricane survivors. That was the case when Saslow went to Gillette, Wyo., last month to write about 16-year-old Moriah Engdahl and her father, Alan Engdahl. In a conservative, gun-loving community, Moriah was defying her dad and nearly everyone else she knew by pushing for tighter gun laws. Alan was a complicated guy who'd served jail time for methamphetamine distribution. At times, Saslow said, he was bombastic, homophobic and racist. But he was also self-aware and generous — willing to help others in need. "He's taking care of his daughter and all these other lost souls," said Saslow, who won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for a series on food stamps. "He l...