On the Rails: A Woman's Memoir
On The Rails is Linda Niemann's story of working on the railroad and, in the process, reconstructing her life. A highly crafted, lyrical memoir, On The Rails is an unorthodox tale of hard drinking and gritty work, sexual adventures with both men and women, and discovering hope and a new life. Like Jack Kerouac, Niemann writes of finding oneself on a journey of physical jeopardy and exhaustion, in isolated places and precarious human connections, in a landscape whose only benevolence is "the darkness of the caboose and the unknown fragrances" of the desert. On The Rails is candid, vivid, engaging, provocative -- and a great read!  --Midwest Book Review