Stephen Starring Grant Mailman review, recensie en informatie memoir van een postbode werkzaam in de Appalachen in de Verenigde Staten en daar een thuis probeert te vinden. Op 8 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de me memoir van de Amerikaanse postbode Stephen Starring Grant die werkte in het gebied van de Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Stephen Starring Grant Mailman review en recensie
- “Mailman pulses with humor and the beauty of simple, everyday courage. In the heart of a small mountain town, Steve Grant’s route as a rural mail carrier becomes a journey of personal redemption, of finding purpose and dignity.” (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)
Mailman
My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
- Auteur: Stephen Starring Grant (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: memoir
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
- Verschijnt: 8 juli 2025
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de memoir van een postbode in de Blue Ridge Mountains
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.
Stephen Starring Grant worked twenty years as a consumer strategist, During the COVID pandemic he became a rural letter carrier. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.