I, Grape — Clarke Formal Tani with an essay by

Tani with an essay by Amanda Cachia and contributions by Joseph Grigely

when an eight-year-old homeless boy and an eccentric elderly woman trapped in a retirement community forge a fragile bond and become each other’s unwitting family

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he recounts his childhood—playing with his siblings

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I, Grape — Clarke Formal Tani with an essay byBy Brock Clarke Professor of English In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction canand cantdo. (Very: is there a weaker, sadder, more futile word in the English language?) Clarke supports his case with passages by and about