From The Last Taxi Driver. The novel, which tells the story of a cab company in Northern Mississippi, was published last month by Tin House Books.

They never tell you what they were in for—only that they just got out. This one’s a handsome white dude—mid-thirties, a few missing teeth, a few prison tats—who’s in a fantastic mood. He’s carrying a twelve-pack of Bud Light when he slides into the back of my Town Car and tells me he’s just been released from Parchman and then gives me the name of some street in the Bethune Woods Project, says…