Grunt: The Rise and Fall (And Rise Again?) of an American Working Class Stiff

Over the past four decades Peter Cox mopped the floor at Dunkin' Donuts, worked in a candle factory, framed homes, back-packed through Europe, hitched-hike to the West Coast, hopped a freight train across Canada, wrote for the U-Mass Daily Collegian, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in South America, functioned as a paralegal in a refugee office on the Tex-Mex border, earned a M.A. in economics from the University of Texas, organized tenant unions in Salem, Massachusetts, and worked as an urban planner in Irvine, California. He has published several novels including Donuts, Missing Faith, On the Run with Jack Frost, and Blended Borders (Xlibris.com). Presently, he is making ends meet, persevering in the Great Recession and (trying to) keeping hope alive.