The last taxi
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Ranjit’s only credible alibi is Shabana’s Indian doorman, but he has vanished. Caught on film leaving the apartment alone, Ranjit is accused by the NYPD as an accessory to murder. Ranjit’s fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, a statue of the elephant god Ganesh used to grotesquely smash the actress’ beautiful face. Ahmad’s heralded debut The Caretaker, has 10 days to prove his innocence.īollywood film icon Shabana Shah has been murdered, her body found in the apartment where Ranjit ate dinner mere hours before.
#THE LAST TAXI DRIVER#
Ranjit’s fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, a statue of the elephant god Ganesh used to grotesquely smash the New York City taxi driver Ranjit Singh, hero of A.X. Bollywood film icon Shabana Shah has been murdered, her body found in the apartment where Ranjit ate dinner mere hours before. Ahmad’s heralded debut The Caretaker, has 10 days to prove his innocence. If you read the book, and you really should, I hope you let me know what you think.New York City taxi driver Ranjit Singh, hero of A.X. Everyone has had a horrendous day at work, but the best part is that at the end of the day, you get to go home. It’s a bright light in the darkness of the cab.Īs miserable as things continue to get in this book, I somehow expected, if not a happy ending, then at least a predictable ending. Perhaps his son, but his love for Anna feels different. Anna is an older passenger that Lou regularly serves, and we get a sense that she might also be the only one he really loves. There’s desperation and disillusionment and the inescapable, depressing truth of being alive in a shitty world, but then there is Anna. Inside this story, there’s violence and grief and unhinged, drug and alcohol delusions. We are ghosts from different dimensions who happen to overlap in our existential existences and only materialize into each other’s lives to scream and spit at one another before disappearing again.” The Last Taxi Driver, page 54 She’s a shadow that quite literally hangs around his life, lying with her back to him every time he goes home for a short break. He’s also got a depressed girlfriend that won’t leave his house. If the trips with the derelict passengers aren’t enough to send our main character to his wit’s end, he’s got a bad case of paranoia with a dash of PTSD on the side. Throughout the shift, things unravel at a frightening pace. The descriptions and the dialogue that seep out of every scene provide a rich story that resembles the accident you can’t quite look away from. What I love the most is that each of the cab rides, and every phone call, is this sensational character study. It’s all this while he deals with his off-kilter, demanding boss, Stella, who’s looking for her convict son, the one who’s hiding in plain sight. Things only get worse for our version of a hero, Lou Bishoff, as he transports meth heads, drug dealers, rejected patients, drunks, rehab escapees and a whole host of others, from one shitty place to another. If there’s one thing this driving twelve-to fifteen-hour shifts seven days a week has taught me, it’s that life ain’t fair.” The Last Taxi Driver, page 12 “I’m always trying to come up with theories that make life fair, though of course it isn’t.
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He himself was a cab driver in some version of the Mississippi he writes about and from the very first pages in the life of the cab driver he created, we see that he has had enough.
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It’s fitting that the George Saunders’ review graces the cover because I often think about him saying in an interview that if a writer has a job outside of writing that they should just think of everyone as characters, and the world as a story. Think of unreliable narrators and the characters you know that are down and out, misguided, or just sick of it all, and you’ll find their twins in this story that remarkably takes place in the span of only one shift. Think Denis Johnson at his rambling, adventuring best, and you might be reminded of something similar while reading this book.
#THE LAST TAXI PROFESSIONAL#
I’m certainly not a professional reviewer, of anything, and I have an extremely modest following online, but I love talking about things I like, and I really liked this book.
#THE LAST TAXI FREE#
I was lucky enough to be able to get a free copy of “The Last taxi Driver” that way, and I am so glad I did. Tin House Books does this awesome thing on social media where they ask people to sign up to receive a galley copy of their soon to be published books.