This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker.
Gordon is a delivery driver with a predilection toward road rage and he?s on the most important delivery of his life. In Santa Barbara there?s a mother of three on life support waiting for Gordon waiting for the liver he?s transporting from Los Angeles. But there?s a mudslide and cars are being swept away people being buried in the sludge. And Gordon who?s as far from a hero as they come has to find a way to get the liver to Santa Barbara.