Yellow Cab

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In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard started moonlighting as a cabdriver; Yellow Cab is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of middle of the night Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to hookers and drug dealers. In this mixed bag of wealthy vignettes and interludes of poetry, Leonard offers sharp insights into the workings of the hidden world of an American city after dark.

“With an ethnographer’s eye for bits and bobs and a creator’s ear for words, Robert Leonard’s portraits of Albuquerque’s cabdrivers and their passengers ring each bit as true as the writings of Joseph Mitchell and Joseph Liebling about varieties of life in New York City. Thoughtful, compelling, and irresistibly authentic.”–Keith H. Basso, Regents Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

“Highly entertaining! . . . Hop aboard a bright yellow Crown Vic and buckle up for a middle of the night journey seen through the eyes of a cabbie. You are going to be the ‘fly at the window’ as you witness the comical, abnormal, touching, and from time to time painful antics of human nature.”–Mike Trujillo, Yellow Cab driver

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