A Very Famous Social Worker

When Greg Johnson was interviewing for a job at a mental health center his interview was interrupted by a police officer with a naked woman in tow. “I was looking for an adventure,” he says, “and this looked like it.”

In A Very Famous Social Worker the author recounts with insight and humor his experiences as a rookie social worker in West Virginia’s Greenbrier Valley. His unlikely parade of clients include a preacher whose wildly rebellious children are threatening to bring down his minist...