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. Just a summer will do him some good, but little does she know. Lilly herself must ultimately
return to that place from which she fled. There she will confront the
secrets that her own stubborn memory refuses to share.
Howard is a man decidedly estranged from the world and himself,
seeing as both seem to be run by strangers somehow, and both spin
invariably beyond his control. Deep down he has learned the weight
of life and relationship; that they will crush him, or he will stay on
top. Now he stands to lose everything in this strange place, this cold
northern city that hardens the very attitude of his wife while
spoiling that of his only son. But change brings the challenge of new
lessons; that some things can be controlled while others will not be,
and that it all starts with himself.
While the adults search the past, and the child looks to the future,
the answers for the generations are found in the pages of
Granddaddy.

About the Author

“As during tumultuous times,
when peace is within the eye of
the storm and safety in striking
at the heart of danger, so we are
free within the grips of
desperate struggle. This is our
way for now, our legacy and our
right to be free. We write to be
free in all we do, the truest
words of our-story to bear the
record of greatness.”


Cavis Adams is a full time District
Fire Chief for a major midwestern
fire department. He also
freelances as an English/Spanish
Medical Interpreter in Hennepin
County, Minnesota.
Writetoexistnow@gmail.com
Cavisadams/aalbc.com