Your Driver Is Waiting

Name: Your Driver Is Waiting
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781838955724
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By Priya Guns

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Summary

Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns is a modern tale centred around a ride-share driver navigating life in a city filled with social tension and economic hardship. The protagonist juggles her daily struggles while contemplating a promising yet complicated romantic interest. This is a gripping exploration of identity, resilience, and the search for connection in an increasingly divided world.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in contemporary stories that dive into the gig economy's challenges and the social issues facing modern society. This engaging narrative offers sharp, witty commentary on everyday struggles, blending an insightful look at humanity with rich character development. If you're curious about the intersection of work-life dynamics and social justice, this might be a captivating read for you.

Your Driver Is Waiting

An electrifying battle cry against the gig economy; a fierce debut on love, privilege, anger and revenge in all their messy forms from a blazing, unstoppable debut talent.

Description

Damani is tired. Every day she cares for her mum, drives ride shares to pay the bills, and is angry at a world that promised her more before spitting her out. The city is alive with protests, fighting for people like her, but Damani can barely afford—literally—to pay attention.

That is until the summer she meets Jolene, and life opens up. Jolene seems like she could be the perfect girlfriend—attentive, attractive, an ally—and their chemistry is undeniable. Jolene's done the reading, she goes to every protest, she has all the right answers. So maybe Damani can look past the one thing that's holding her back: Jolene is rich. And not only rich, but white, too. But just as their romance intensifies, just as Damani learns to trust, Jolene does something unforgivable, setting off a truly explosive chain of events.

Brimming with heart, humour, and rage, Your Driver Is Waiting is a powerful, blackly funny social satire that announces the arrival of a fearless new voice.

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Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns, acclaimed for its fierce and unique voice, is a powerful critique of modern American societal issues such as race, class, and the gig economy. Reviewers praise it as a gripping, fast-paced read brimming with humour and social commentary, and liken its unrelenting, immersive narrative to a ride you can't refuse. Damani, the unforgettable protagonist, embodies a vibrant blend of bravado and vulnerability, making this debut a compelling, must-read novel.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781838955724

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Atlantic Books

Edition: Export/Airside

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 320

Collections

Contemporary Romance Fiction General Fiction LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction Priya Guns Romance

About the Author

Priya Guns is a Creative Writing graduate from Kingston University. A former teacher, she is an actor and PhD student previously published in short story anthologies, gal-dem, Spring magazine, and anonymously in the Guardian. Your Driver Is Waiting is her debut novel.

Twitter: @priya_guns
Instagram: @priya.guns