Chapter 10

Grant sued me from prison. Or rather, his bankruptcy trustee did, on behalf of the creditors, with Grant's very enthusiastic cooperation. The claim was beautiful in its audacity. It said that every recipe on the Kane flagship menu had been developed during my marriage, using marital resources, and therefore constituted an asset of the marital estate — which was now the property of the bankruptcy estate, which owed two hundred and forty thousand dollars to a seafood supplier named Ray. It...