Mailman My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding

"Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old hometown [of Blacksburg, Virginia]. Suddenly, he was the guy with the goods, delivering dog food and respirators and lube and heirloom tomato seeds and Lord of the Rings replica swords. He transported chicken feed to grandmothers living alone in the mountains and forded a creek with a refrigerator on his back. But while he carried the mail, he also carried a whole lot more than just the mail, including a family legacy of rage and the anxiety of having lost his identity along with his corporate job. And yet, slowly, surrounded by a ragtag but devoted band of letter carriers, working this different kind of job, Grant found himself becoming a different kind of person. He became a lifeline for lonely people, providing fleeting moments of human contact and the assurance that our government still cares"--

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Stephen Starring Grant

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• Autori: Stephen Starring Grant
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.07.2025
• Categoria: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie
• EAN: 9781668018040
• ISBN: 978-1-66801-804-0
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.8 x 22 x 2.7 cm
• Categorie: Midlife Crisis, Virginia, Hillbilly Elegy, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Social welfare & social services, Public Service, Appalachia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, overcoming adversity, Late capitalism, Rural communities / rural life, Social welfare, social policy and social services, loneliness epidemic, post office; USPS; postal service memoir; appalachia; rural america; workplace memoir; American institutions; blue collar; public service; rural community; finding purpose; blue-collar dignity; midlife crisis; Appalachian life; overcoming adversity; , Blue Collar, Rural America, Finding Purpose, rediscovering faith, American institutions, blue-collar dignity, usps, pandemic stories, appalachian life, postal service memoir, Economic Anxiety, blacksburg, workplace memoir, public service memoir, Rural community