Your Driver is Waiting

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Guns, Priya, Fiction / Guns, Priya
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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"In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her father just passed away and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in the basement of her parents' old house, caring for her mom, and driving for an app to (not even) pay the bills. Protests are all the rage--everybody's in solidarity with somebody-- and the city is roiling with them, but while she keeps hearing that they're fighting for change on behalf of people like her she's too broke to even afford to pay attention. And they're blocking the roads. That is, until she gives a ride to Jolene, and life opens up. Jolene seems like she could be the perfect girlfriend - attentive, attractive, liberal - and their chemistry is incredible. So maybe Damani can look past the one thing that's holding her back: She's never dated a white girl before. But Jolene's done the reading, she goes to every protest, and she says all the right things. Still, just as their romance intensifies, just as Damani is learning to trust, Jolene does something unforgivable, setting off an explosive chain of events. A wild ride brimming with dark comedy, piercing social commentary and propulsive writing, Your driver is waiting is a feverish take on our culture of modern alienation"-- Provided by publisher.

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Quick read submitted by Bethybeth07 on June 9, 2023, 10:54am It’s a quick pace book about a ride share driver and her daily life as well as her family and friends but soon turns to social issues and racism.

intense submitted by nemiller on June 25, 2023, 1:16pm I'm not sure I would agree with the publisher's description as "spiky and hilarious". There are definitely funny parts, but overall it's pretty bleak. A lot of it is all too relatable for anyone who works all day just to scrape by, and is too tired for much of anything else.

There are some unexpected twists and turns, but most of the time you (and probably Damani) see things coming, you can't look away but you're powerless to stop it.

A very good book, but you should know coming in that it's not a walk in the park.

Good if you like character focused books submitted by rshah on August 17, 2023, 8:35am If you enjoy character focused (vs a mix of character and plot or plot centric books), you’ll enjoy this. There’s a lot of great social commentary on late stage capitalism, workers rights, racism, grief, and more. But the “big plot point” just angered me and then fell flat with no real impact. It is a great exploration of the life of Damani, the mc. But I personally needed more plot thrown in.