Trash!: A Garbageman's Story
Slim, raffish and spirited ... Trash! has been compared to...Anthony Bourdain’s restaurant kitchen exposé. Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate.There are topics I wish Paré-Poupart had found room to explore ...It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.
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Despite its political thrust, the writing is suffused with literary oomph and good humour ... I zoomed through Trash! in a couple of hours. Paré-Poupart does that magical thing that great memoir writers always do: he offers you a keyhole through which to peer into an unfamiliar world. My only complaint? I wish he had written more.
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In this arresting book, he makes that invisible work something you can’t look away from. A sharp and engaging reckoning with the detritus of our times—and the people who clean it up.
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