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

I never expected a memoir about delivering mail to be this absorbing. The author gets laid off from a consulting career and returns to Appalachia, taking the USPS job because it’s stable (and it comes with great health insurance). The day-to-day vignettes are truly great: weather, dogs, and the insane memory load required to do the job well (they basically have to memorize all their routes). It ends up being far more tender than I expected: a book about work, dignity, and what “home” can mean when your life resets.