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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — A Thud You Feel in Your Bones
Chapter 3: — Duct Tape, Bills, and a Body in the Trunk (Not Literally…Probably)
Chapter 4: — Jolene in the Backseat
Chapter 5: — The Fundraiser of Seven Hummuses
Chapter 6: — Cashmere Blanket, Clear Water, First Kiss
Chapter 7: — Doo Wop, The Church, The Crack in Her Smile
Chapter 8: — Raid, Arrests, and the Taste of Blood
Chapter 9: — The Track, The Chase, The Station
Chapter 10: — Hot Kitchen, Deviled Beef, and Letting Go
Description
Your Driver Is Waiting follows Damani Krishanthan, a Tamil-Canadian rideshare driver juggling crushing debt, grief for her father, and the full-time care of her mother after illness leaves her partially immobile. Damani’s car is her workplace, her confessional booth, and her shield—packed with tools for survival in a city seething with inequality and swelling protests.
When Damani meets Jolene Barnett-Smith—beautiful, wealthy-adjacent, and deeply invested in “doing good”—their attraction explodes into a relationship that feels like oxygen. But their worlds collide at Doo Wop, a squatted community space where gig workers organize and the marginalized find refuge. Jolene’s fear and misrecognition of that space unleashes state violence: raids, arrests, deportations, and the targeting of Damani herself.
Darkly funny, furious, tender, and volatile, the novel asks what love can mean across class and power—especially when the system rewards one person’s panic and punishes another’s existence.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who like sharp, voice-driven, politically charged literary fiction with dark humor and messy, unforgettable characters.
- Fans of stories about gig work, economic precarity, and the private cost of public unrest.
- Readers drawn to complicated queer romance where intimacy collides with class, race, and real-world consequences.