After losing his corporate marketing job during the pandemic, Stephen Starring Grant decided to move back home and become a rural mail-carrier associate in Blacksburg, Virginia. His recently published memoir unravels what he learned about Appalachian identity and blue-collar experiences, but also about the power of showing up, every single day. “In Grant’s telling, postal workers bring order and predictability to a country that can feel like it’s unraveling, especially during crises that starkly illustrate how reliant we are on the federal bureaucracy,” Tyler Austin Harper writes in a review of the memoir.
On Mail Delivery
Memoir of a Mailman…