Ta-ta Grandma

When Flinty’s mother Blossom returns after seven years from Toronto to
Spring Valley, a rural Jamaican village, she finds her teenage son facing
the same dim future as the island, which is sizzling with the political ten-
sions of the 1970’s, and idling out his life on a dangerous roller-coaster of
misadventures.
Ta-ta, Grandma opens with Flinty, who lives with his grandfather Hutch
and his sprightly grandmother Catherine. He and his four, restless
friends pull every trick to avoid school work. Flinty, whose passions are
cricket and reggae music, plans to leave for Canada, learn how to build
earthquake-jolting music sound systems and then return to put fear into
God-fearing Christians, with thunderous, irreverent noise. Even after a
new, tough, male teacher challenges Flinty, nothing is preventing him
and his trouble-prone friends from tumbling from one mischief to the
next- until tragedy strikes and forever changes their lives.
This fast paced, high tension story—woven through with traditional folk
tales, juicy gossip, political tension, and death-defying cricket matches—
is hilarious, mystical and insightful. Set in the picturesque, lush, rolling
hills of Jamaica’s Cockpit-Country region,Ta-ta, Grandma is superb for
adults, young and old, who want to skip the familiar tourist destinations
and trek deeply into the island’s interior to experience its warmth and caring culture.