The Plot Against America (2004)

Roth imagines Charles Lindbergh winning the American presidency in 1940, then follows the effects through a Jewish family in Newark. Public policy enters holidays, schooling, jobs and arguments around the table, making an election's consequences intimate. The young Philip's perspective leaves room for both confusion and fear. This is a particularly strong starting point for the list's everyday emphasis: national history changes the family's options before anyone understands the full shape of the danger.