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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1668018047
ISBN-13
9781668018040
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13072081395

Product Key Features

Book Title
Mailman : My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Sociology / Rural
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Stephen Starring Grant
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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"Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte agreed: a strong nation needs a robust postal service. In this funny, beautiful memoir, Stephen Starring Grant shows us why. His world upended by the pandemic, Grant goes from fancy consultant to rural route mailman, emerging a year later to sing a love song to the post office--America's least understood treasure. I will never take my mail carrier for granted again." --David Von Drehle, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Charlie, " Mailman takes readers on a wild ride... as Grant pulls back the curtain on the U.S. Postal Service, revealing its foibles and idiosyncrasies alongside its stalwart heart." --Southern Review of Books, " Mailman pulses with humor and the beauty of simple, everyday courage. Steve Grant takes us into the heart of a small mountain town, where his route as a rural mail carrier becomes a journey of personal redemption, of finding purpose and dignity. This book reminds us that meaning often lies in showing up, day after day, for the people who need us." --Jonathan Safran Foer, "In this good-natured memoir... Grant illustrates how the work helped him feel useful to a town he'd left behind and reignited his sense of vitality. This has charm to spare." -- Publishers Weekly, "A charming book that's guaranteed to make you think differently about the USPS." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "If you've ever fantasized about ditching your corporate job for a quieter life in the country, Mailman could be the memoir for you.... Grant's honesty and humor... have me hooked." -- Garden & Gun, " Mailman pulses with humor and the beauty of simple, everyday courage. Steve Grant takes us into the heart of a small mountain town, where his route as a rural mail carrier becomes a journey of personal redemption, of finding purpose and dignity. This book reminds us that meaning often lies in showing up, day after day, for the people who need us." --Jonathan Safran Foer, New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Illuminated
Synopsis
An exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply about a country he loves but had lost touch with. 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. 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. He embraced the thrill of tackling new challenges, the pride of contributing to something greater than himself, the joy of camaraderie, and the purpose found in working hard for his family and doing a small, good thing for his community. He even kindled a newfound faith. A brash and loving portrait of an all-American institution, Mailman offers a deeply felt portrait of both rural America and the dedicated (and eccentric) letter carriers who keep our lives running smoothly day to day. One hell of a raconteur, Steve Grant has written an irreverent, heartfelt, and often hilarious tribute to the simple heroism of daily service, the dignity and struggle of blue-collar work, the challenge and pleasure of coming home again after twenty-five years away, and the delight of going the extra mile for your neighbors, every day.

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