Summary

In Chapter 19, Grady and James drive towards Kinship. Grady realizes that his hood has a large dent in it from where the man he calls ‘Vernon Hardapple’ jumped on it. James says that his father is dying of colon cancer. They drive through an affluent neighborhood called Sewickley Heights, and James expresses his disdain for wealthy people. Grady is not Jewish, but the Warshaws are. Grady tells James about Passover. Grady assumes that James is Catholic, as Catholicism features in many of the stories that James writes. Grady also informs James that Emily and her siblings are adopted. Emily and her siblings are all originally from Korea; they are related neither to each other nor to their parents by blood. Irving and his wife Irene had only ever had one biological child: a son named Sam who accidentally drowned when he was young. In...