In Starting From Paterson Garret Keizer, called "the finest essayist writing today" by Jeff Sharlet, collects essays on an adult's supermarket perplexity, a child's religious formation, The search for the Northwest Passage, meeting Colonel Sanders and Paul Farmer, his love for his father-in-law, and the labor struggles that led to an eight-hour day, all connected to the author's roots in Paterson, NJ, and the woman he came to love there.
