Anderson, meanwhile, was a baby-faced, somewhat bashful African American man with thick glasses. He was twenty-six years old, almost ten years younger than Yutzy, and came up to Yutzy’s chest. Anderson had grown up in Akron, a working-class town of tire factories, and, before starting this kind of sociological fieldwork, had left Ohio only once in his life. Still, over time, Anderson would ascend to lead a disaster-related division of the National Science Foundation and work for the World Bank before dying in a bicycling accident on Kauai in 2013, while
