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Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (Chicago Visions and Revisions) ReviewI was a bartender for fifteen years, and some of the smartest, most creative people I know work behind steering wheels and bars. But people who haven't spent time on that side of the service sector probably will be surprised when they read Samarov's debut, Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab, because this slim volume unfolds with a complexity and humanity not often found in memoirs twice its size.
Organized by days (Monday - Sunday), Hack is illustrated throughout with Samarov's distinctive drawings and paintings. His writing style is straightforward and spiked with keen observations. He describes the people he encounters during a typical week--fares, other cabbies, cops--with empathy, even when their actions or speech make the reader squirm.
Mostly, Samarov drives and listens. His ear for dialogue is as finely tuned as his painter's eye, and the passengers he quotes (and paints) are sometimes funny and sometimes pathetic. They are drunk or high or horny; racist, arrogant, or wise. It's his job to deliver them to point B, and that's what he does, listening to them while the meter runs, choosing his spoken words carefully, if at all.
He also shares the drudgery of the job, the long waits for fares at the airport and for mechanical repairs at the garage. Between bouts with boredom and hectic traffic and obnoxious fares, moments of inspiration and humanity and humor come along in unexpected places at unexpected times. One of the most surprising stories involves a pair of amorous Cubs fans en route from Wrigleyville to their suburban home in Downer's Grove.
Hack helped me gain a new appreciation for cabbies, generally, and Dmitry Samarov, the artist, specifically. In about 125 pages of selective accounts of the people he encounters on the job, he is revealed more honestly than most memoirists are in several hundred pages of soul-baring testimony. It's the sense of dignity he brings to these pages, I think, that sets his book apart. He avoids pronouncements and often keeps his thoughts about the people he encounters to himself, choosing instead to allow the reader to come to our own conclusions. In that way, we learn about the cabbie/author as we learn about ourselves. It's a surprising, complicated, revelatory ride.
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