Grand Union by Zadie Smith a poet and romantic who

a poet and romantic who grows disenchanted after joining the group

lonely and introverted Fuyuko lives alone and fills her days with her job as a freelance proofreader

Largely overlooked because of their short lengths

’ she muses

at the age of sixty-three

Grand Union by Zadie Smith a poet and romantic whoInterleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt