Mailman

“This has charm to spare.” – Publishers Weekly“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“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

After twenty years as a consumer strategist, Stephen Starring Grant became a rural letter carrier during the pandemic. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.