When I picked up Hu Anyan’s memoir, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, I expected a window into a life I might not otherwise see. A memoir covering Hu Anyan’s career—or lack thereof—in China’s gig economy, the story unfolds along the contours of a picaresque. Over a scattered timeline, from the late aughts to the dawn […] The post “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing” Illuminates That Financial Security Is a Matter of Luck appeared first on Electric Literature .