Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
By Chris Arnade
Sentinel, 304pp, £25/$18
Books featuring battles between the shift manager at a McDonald’s and people attempting to get free ice and soda from the machine on a hot day are rare. At first, reading about it is charming – behold the indomitable human spirit, devising ingenious stratagems to get the free ice – but it then dawns that the scene is also shocking and horrifying: the people want the free ice from McDonald’s because they have no other way of staying cool and hydrated.
