Going Postal

Veteran of a bad war, child of the sixties counterculture, philosopher, family man, and failed spiritual leader for a congregation of two, John Grant struggles to make sense of his existential malaise and survive its strangling hold on his life while working for the United States Postal Service. Grant is a dope-smoking, darker Walter Mitty. His one touchstone with reality, wife Rhonda, leaves him and he must struggle alone with the complicated questions that often arise in a mid-life crisis, surrounded by a cast of characters even stranger than his own post-Vietnam delusions. Contending with peanut-crunching, gun-toting postal clerks, rabid dogs, his best friend’s bad acid trip and a postmaster who wants him fired, our hero navigates the streets of a fictitious Indiana town with the same hilarious and lyrical alacrity as the author, poet Jim McGarrah, navigates through the language in this, his first novel.