Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story

What’s a man with a master’s degree doing spending his days on a Montreal garbage truck? In this rousing and strongly-voiced debut memoir, twenty-year industry veteran Paré-Poupart is happy to tell you why he chose his noble-though-disdained profession, passionately advocating for the dignity, indispensability, and general badassery of garbage workers everywhere. Practical and gently political, I’m one among many readers who’ll find this book changes how they think about a largely invisible part of their life and community. For fans of anything Erling Kagge and Robin Nagle’s Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City.