{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Mendelsund\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, a graphic designer, and the creative director of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eSame Same\u003c\/i\u003e as well as several books about literature and the visual imagination.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382068318482,"sku":"9781250829610","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_13d76725-8231-48c4-ac64-97031e5623c1.jpg?v=1728702450","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-delivery-9781250829610","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}