In the new novel “Off Route,” an unnamed narrator begins work as a bus driver at a quasi-public entity labeled “Cosmodemonic,” in a city that may or may not bear certain similarities to one Eugene, Oregon.
“There are fates worse than death,” the narrator laments. “Like becoming a bus driver, for instance.”
The book is the product of six years of observation by its author, Rick Levin, a bus driver for Lane Transit District and a longtime journalist…