Sarah Schulman's
Girls, Visions and Everything has loads of fabulous paragraphs. Here's one of my favorites:
"Where's Kwame?"
"Arthur took him to the movies. Every month or so Arthur decides that he wants his son to have exposure to some average American culture so he'll know what people are talking about if he ever crosses Fourteenth Street. That's the theory anyway. So he takes him off to the movies. Halfway through, of course, all the sexism and racism and gratuitous violence get to be too much. Arthur gets disgusted and they have to walk out. Poor Kwame's almost six and he doesn't know movies are ever over. He thinks they're like the sky, cinematically endless."
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