The following is an excerpt from Grand Rapids, out next week from Semiotext(e). My only real friend, Candy, loathed Grand Rapids as much as I did. She had moved there from Lansing when she was six. She visited her grandparents in “the capital” on holidays. Lansing was bigger, she said, and her family had lived in a house there. Now, she lived with her father and sister in one apartment and sometimes stayed with her mother in another.