Ben Ryder Howe

This book was fascinating! Wow! I now know that I DO NOT EVER want to own a convenience store! But I loved the stories about the crazy customers. I also really enjoyed the stories of George Plimpton, Ben's boss at the Paris Review. (Ben was an editor of the Paris Review, plus he owned a convenience store with his Korean wife and her family.)

I learned a lot about New Englanders and Koreans from this book, or at least the author's impressions of those cultures.

It was mildly amusing and parts of it did drag a little bit, but all-in-all, I enjoyed it. I couldn't put it down there toward the end. There's good times and bad times and some sad times in this book but it was very enlightening.
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