Book description
Working dead-end blue-collar jobs your whole life can take a dramatic physical and emotional toll-unless you learn to embrace the absurdity.
Kevin Cramer has almost died at work three separate times, surviving each incident only through a minor miracle. It got him asking the question-why? Why do so many of…
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1 author picked American Grunt as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
American Grunt is for anyone who’s ever worked a shitty manual labor job for minimum wage (i.e., most of America).
As a kind of literary outsider, Cramer – who narrates with a forceful, friendly humor, as if he’s got his arm around the reader’s shoulder – writes compellingly about his decades on construction sites and in warehouses and behind the wheels of delivery trucks. Life, that is, as a grunt.
There aren’t many writers out there who can articulate the absurdity of such a life… a life at the intersections of poverty, danger, apathy, and frustration. Cramer’s one of them.…
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