Dirty Work: A Chump's Search for Meaning

A ribald, funny, and irreverent memoir of a spiritual life found in the most unexpected places.

We've all been there: An impasse, a crossroads, an unmarked door—or some asymmetry in the weave of life that leaves us stuck at worst, though at best in question. So too begins Rod Bull's memoir of a seemingly accidental spiritual life, with a constant refrain to "dirty work"—shoveling manure in a stable or bilge water in the belly of a ship, or cutting cane and viciously cut, the only cure to wh...