Sunday In Granny's Church and Other Stories

By Orville E. Brown

Bishop Coore in the pulpit at City Mission, the manhunt for Reynold Henry (son of Claudius), two husbands turning up for a woman's wedding, maroons on the verge of warfare and the antics of the MHRs in the old Headquarters House:these are the characters and events that compel our attention in this delightful collection of short stories, "Sunday in Granny's Church." One story presents "Cricket as Class War," another relates an historic footrace at Calabar, there is a graveyard initiation for new boys at a rural high school, and, in "One Tin of Fresh Herrings," a professed obeahman is unmasked as a thief. This lusty and feisty kaleidoscope of people and events positively throbs with life, and in it Jamaicans will see themselves, people they know and places they have been. Teacher and author Orville Brown, with this book, steps away from academic writing to display a surprising talent for storytelling. Published on the occasion of the country's fiftieth anniversary of independence, the book provides Jamaicans at home and abroad with an excellent keepsake of the golden jubilee.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477545034
• ISBN13: 9781477545034
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.4" x 5.1"