I finally got this book in my hands. Got my hands on this book. Resisting the urge to drop $30 at my local independent bookstore when it came out in July, I put my name on the hold list at the library. Now here we are in October and I’m actually reading it.
We’ve discussed it before when the reviews in the NY Times and the New Yorker were great reading in and of themselves.
I’m about 47% into the book and recommending it to you again. The author is not your average Cliff Claven slouch. He’s a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He’s my age. He has kids. He lost his very high-paying “consumer strategist” job when covid made it go away and he took a mail carrier job because he needed health insurance. It happens to be in Blacksburg, Virginia, home of Virginia Tech.
In no way do I claim to be a full-on USPS mailman. I’m an electric ass Mr. McFeeley on a large college campus. But the amount of mail I sort and deliver gives me a taste for things this guy is describing. And he describes those things very well.
I won’t ruin the book for you. You can read it yourself.
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