Granger in Swing time, just happy and content the way they exist: "Where I saw deprivation, injustice, poverty, Granger saw simplicity, a lack of materilism, communal beauty--the opposite of the America in which he'd been raised. Where I saw polygamy, misogyny, motherless children, he remembered a sixth floor walk up, a tiny studio apartment shared with a depressed single mother, the loneliness, the food stamps, the lack of meaning, the threat of the streets right outside his front door, and spoke to me with genuine tears in his eyes of how happier he might have been raised by not one woman but 15" (page 222)
