Mendell Station : a novel / J. B. Hwang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hwang, J. B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States Postal Service--Fiction.

United States Postal Service.

Best friends--Death--Fiction.

Best friends.

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

Letter carriers--Fiction.

Letter carriers.

Belief and doubt--Fiction.

Belief and doubt.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Fiction.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Letter writing--Fiction.

Letter writing.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

187 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2025.

Summary:

"A tender debut that follows a woman who, after her best friend's death, loses her faith and quits her job to join the postal service, quickly becoming an 'essential worker' as the city shuts down. It's January 2020, and Miriam is already getting a sense that the world might be ending. First, she learns that her best friend, Esther, has died. Then her faith in God--in everything, really--follows suit. Her job teaching Scripture at a private Christian school suddenly seems untenable, so she quits. Thankfully, the postal service is hiring. While Miriam finds comfort in her route, the mail truck can hardly outpace the memory of her lost friend and eroded faith. She finds herself composing letters to Esther that she will never deliver, reflecting on their shared childhoods and deep understanding of each other's difficult families. Mendell Station depicts one woman's deliverance through the peculiar rhythms of work, and the beauty found in small details and gestures, those quotidian labors of love." --Amazon.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781639736188

1639736182

OCLC:

1528107824