Where will we bury the boomers? At Grandmaland, a grandiose burial resort and theme park that springs from the active mind of history professor Cal Marpoult. Who will write the epitaph for the baby boom generation? What does the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba have to do with Grandmaland? Where will Cal find the investors to finance his dream? Why is there a federal wetlands in the middle of the arid West Texas plains, where Cal hopes to build his resort? How can an art-loving statistician help create Grandmaland while capturing Cal's heart? Follow Cal on a fun-filled adventure that mixes feng shui with Shakespeare and tons of American history. His journey ends where the legacy of his generation begins. Grandmaland. It's the Boomer Legacy.

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church was the center of life and culture for a few hardworking and tough minded African American families in the Mississippi backwoods. Grandma Brillie with her brood of gun-toting sons were at church every Sunday as she paraded down the isle of the old wooden church. Right outside, the Perkins boys were gambling and selling moonshine to sinners and saints alike. Follow these families onto the back roads, into the juke joints, and revivals as they try to carve out a living in a time where just walking on the sidewalk next to someone White could get you thrown in jail.

Upon the moment 12-year-old Jeremy Rosenberg witnesses his father's death, Jeremy loses the world he had assumed would last forever. The Widow's Son is launched on a devastating moment, but this tale of misguided efforts and accidental triumphs of children forced into difficult times creates a humorous, poignant novel. The reader's laughter and tears are sure to flow together to the last page as Jeremy struggles to make his family into a family once again.

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