The Delivery

Enter the world of the Delivery Boy, who must peddle his way to 5-star customer ratingsand, perhaps, freedomin novelist and graphic designer Peter Mendelsund's The Delivery.Countries go wrong, sometimes, and sometimes the luckier citizens of those countries have a chance to escape and seek refuge in another countrya country that might itself be in the process of going wrong.In the bustling indifference of an unnamed city, one such citizen finds himself trapped working for a company that makes its money dispatching an army of undocumented refugees to bring the well-off men and women of this confounding metropolis their dinners. Whatever he might have been at home, this citizen is now a Delivery Boy: member of a new and invisible working class, pedaling his power-assist bike through traffic hoping for a decent tip and a five star rating.He is decidedly a Delivery Boy; sometimes he even feels like a Delivery Baby; certainly he's not...