Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Lie on the Road by Finn Murphy

Book review: Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Lie on the Road by Finn Murphy This surprisingly interesting memoir turned out to be one I could not put down. I got the iBook sample of this book after seeing something in the NYTimes Book Review, and ended up reading it over the weekend. This is a well written memoir of a life of a middle class raised white guy who took a different path. Part philosophy and part a description of the details of a life and profession that none of us would have a clue about, he describes a life as an outsider who has found his niche. One of the great things about this is the leap he writes about from his young life to being in his 50s. He describes being a teenager, how he gets into the moving/truck driving world. Then at 31 he walks away from it, only to come back to the life at age 51. There is absolutely no description of what he did in the interim 20 years, which whether it was meant to or not keeps the reader engaged. An interesting literary device. This is an example of why I have come to like memoirs so much, especially when they are written by people who are not professional writers but who apparently have a natural affinity for writing.