Books we recommend

We have two great books to recommend: one by a dear old friend of Scott’s from college—Lee Durkee—and one by our new friend Michael Geci.

Lee Durkee’s book is a wild ride through a Mississippi few have ever experienced: The Last Taxi Driver.

Hailed by George Saunders as “a true original—a wise and wildly talented writer,” Lee Durkee takes readers on a high-stakes cab ride through an unforgettable shift. Meet Lou—a lapsed novelist, struggling Buddhist, and UFO fan—who drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi college town. With Uber moving into town and his way of life vanishing, his girlfriend moving out, and his archenemy dispatcher suddenly returning to town on the lam, Lou must finish his bedlam shift by aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his disintegrating Town Car. Lou is forced to decide how much he can take as a driver, and whether keeping his job is worth madness and heartbreak.

Michael’s book, Pot Doc, is a non-fiction look at the early days of medical marijuana legalization. Dr. Geci was at the forefront of the movement and has become an expert on cannabis cures.

Pot Doc details Dr. Michael Geci's journey through the murky world of medical marijuana during the infancy of Montana's marijuana boom in 2009 and its improbable and bizarre implosion just a few years later.