Trash!: A Garbageman's Story
Slim, raffish and spirited ... Trash! has been compared to...Anthony Bourdain’s restaurant kitchen exposé. Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate.There are topics I wish Paré-Poupart had found room to explore ...It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.
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Trash! is an intriguing attempt to broaden the parameters of this kind of book. Paré-Poupart has a distinctly 21st-century knack for swirling together theoretical and visceral language ... His grab-bag writing is reminiscent of the internet at its rare, educational best. Paré-Poupart’s style gives his book a rambunctious spirit, a sense of a hungry, catholic mind at work ... Paré-Poupart’s constant need to connect and contextualize can be a little exhausting, as I imagine his dumpster-diving lifestyle might be. Still, the book is exhilarating (also like dumpster diving?) on every page.
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Despite its political thrust, the writing is suffused with literary oomph and good humour ... I zoomed through Trash! in a couple of hours. Paré-Poupart does that magical thing that great memoir writers always do: he offers you a keyhole through which to peer into an unfamiliar world. My only complaint? I wish he had written more.
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