Featured Book Of The Week - Granddaddy
More than a coming of age story of a man-child, Granddaddy is the story of a coming of ages past. When 11-year-old Curtis is sent begrudgingly down south to spend the summer with his grandfather, he is reborn into a world of nature and manhood. Here, on a rickety sharecropper’s plot, he stands to inherit the timeless ancestral lessons into which he’s just begun to grow. Lilly-May Hunter is a woman that once fled the racially tumultuous south for that peaceful promise of the north, but where she finds herself is not within that glorious skyline that first appeared from the distance. Here is the northern brand of racism, materialism and other-isms—the steely, prying mechanisms that tear methodically away at her, at the man she loves and even their only son. She determines to send Curtis to the very place that she left behind, her father’s house in the rural south, trusting that the wholesome countryside can instill more value in him than the city has taken...