{"product_id":"the-delivery-9781250829610","title":"The Delivery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnter the world of the Delivery Boy, who must pedal his way to five-star customer ratings--and, perhaps, freedom--in novelist and graphic designer Peter Mendelsund's \u003ci\u003eThe Delivery\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCountries go wrong sometimes, and sometimes the luckier citizens of those countries have a chance to escape and seek refuge in another country--a country that might itself be in the process of going wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the bustling indifference of an unnamed city, one such citizen finds himself trapped working for a company that makes its money dispatching an army of undocumented refugees to bring the well-off men and women of this confounding metropolis their dinners. Whatever he might have been at home, this citizen is now a Delivery Boy: a member of a new and invisible working class, pedaling his power-assist bike through traffic, hoping for a decent tip and a five-star rating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe is decidedly a Delivery Boy; sometimes he even feels like a Delivery Baby; certainly he's not yet a Delivery Man, though he'll have to man up if he wants to impress N., the aloof dispatcher who sends him his orders and helps him with his English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan our hero avoid the wrath of his Supervisor, get the girl, and escape his indentured servitude? Can someone in his predicament ever have a happy ending? Who gets to decide? And who's telling this story, anyway? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarrowing and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eThe Delivery\u003c\/i\u003e is a fable for and about our times: an exploration of the ways language and commerce unite and isolate every one of us, native and immigrant both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250829610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 4.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Peter Mendelsund","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574039355573,"sku":"9781250829610","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e0a57f6a-6d5f-44ae-b22b-f064b618999f.jpg?v=1643688585","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-delivery-9781250829610","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}