Review: "The Good Hand," a memoir of working in Dakota oil
By Michael Patrick F. Smith Viking: 464 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. What are you doing right now? Have you taken any risks lately? When’s the last time you were truly scared? In the summer of 2012, Michael Patrick F. Smith read an article in Men’s Journal about the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. At the time, he was working a white-collar job in lower Manhattan, living in Brooklyn, engaging in the drug- and alcohol-soaked bacchanal of “postadolescent” life available to ...
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