Praise for Scrapple:

Siân Griffiths’s emotionally resonant, crisply sentenced, beautifully built Scrapple is ultimately a meditation on how not-being-at-home feels like the fundamental human condition when it comes to youth, race, place, money, mystery, just getting by from one day to the next, and pretty much anything else. An impressive work.
—Lance Olsen, author of My Red Heaven

Scrapple starts with a bang and doesn’t let up. Robert’s quest to find his brother is gripping, but so is his quest to find his place in a new school, new neighborhood, and new city. In this suspenseful story, Griffiths still somehow makes space for moments of penetrating insight into what it’s like to be a young person shouldering the weight of loss and unasked-for responsibilities.
—Caitlin Horrocks, author of The Vexations

Scrapple pulls off the impressive feat of writing about youthful friendships in a way that is realistic but still complex, smart, and challenging. The two boys at the center of this excellent novel are tormented by bullies as they face difficult questions about race, money, and sexuality, but they never lose their humanity or their youthful optimism. Siân Griffiths deftly ties all these threads together into a captivating story that will resonate with any reader who remembers being that age when you’re too young to change your life, but just old enough to desperately wish you could.
—Tom McAllister, author of How to Be Safe

Siân B. Griffiths is an enchanter, casting her spell with fresh, unusual words, with impeccable sentences and unerring details. I love the people in this wise and luminous book, a novel steeped in poverty, sexual harassment, and racial discord, a novel daring enough to begin with babies abandoned in an empty and derelict apartment. And then bad gets worse. I started reading slowly, hoping the book wouldn’t end, hoping I wouldn’t have to say goodbye to our hero Robert and the indomitable Jerome, young pals who face the constant threat of violence on the mean streets of Philadelphia as they try to solve the mystery of the babies’ missing parents. Buy this book, friends, and you will thank me. You’re not going to read many novels as powerful, as honest, and as compassionate as Scrapple.
—John Dufresne, author of I Don’t Like Where This Is Going

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