Drop and Add

by Rick Bailey

Eastern Technical College was not his first choice. That’s where Eliot Becker goes to teach English. As a new adjunct instructor, he’s assigned one class, “the worst class with the worst students at the worst time of day.” Eliot rents an apartment in a nearby one-stoplight farm town. For extra money he takes a job at the local grocery store and sings in an all-falsetto group at a nearby county bar. The students he teaches are under-prepared. They work, they take on debt, they struggle, they want to make good. What’s good? Can he help them? What are the odds of getting a full-time position at Eastern Tech? Can he learn to feel at home in a farm town? What does he really want?

Paperback

Published August 30, 2024

About the author

I grew up in a small town in the Midwest. I married an Italian immigrant. So there is frequently a multi-cultural theme in my writing (eating vanilla ice cream as a kid, eating gelato as an adult).

My new book is called Drop and Add, a novel, published by KDP. It's the story of an adjunct English instructor taking his first job at rural technical college. He's adjunct. The money is bad. The students are under-prepared. The prospects of getting a full-time position are remote.