Jonathan Rigsby - Your Rideshare Driver: One of the earliest stories in the book is about a woman who called me to take her back and forth to a liquor store from her home. Her son had overdosed that morning. She grabbed on to me when we got back to her driveway and sobbed in my arms.

TELL BLUESKY MORE ABOUT YOUR BOOK PLEASE!

Me too. (It doesn't help that my book goes into the 1950s drought and why so few noticed it.)

I'm the author of an upcoming book called DRIVE: Scraping by in Uber's America. It's about my time working as a rideshare driver after my divorce, but it's also about the gig work industry as a whole and how it exploits vulnerable people. It's available for pre-order and comes out May 14th!

Drive: Scraping by in Uber's America, One Ride at a Time a book by Jonathan Rigsbybookshop.org One father, three years, and thousands of rides Poverty, By America meets Maid in this dad's darkly humorous yet humanizing story of working long hours and late nights behind the wheel as a rideshare...

Nice. I did like a one-year tour of duty. We all think we're gonna write a book about it but you just went ahead and did it.

It was rough but I'm sort of ashamed by how much I loved it.

The people are the best and worst thing about it. They all stand out so vividly.

They do. And so often it's their sadness. People call for an Uber at really rough times, often.

One of the earliest stories in the book is about a woman who called me to take her back and forth to a liquor store from her home. Her son had overdosed that morning. She grabbed on to me when we got back to her driveway and sobbed in my arms.

I did liquor store runs too. They definitely tipped.

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