BOOK LAUNCH
OF
"A PLACE CALLED GOUYAVE"
BY TONY DECOTEAU
MEET & GREET TONY DECOTEAU
AND COLLECT YOUR AUTOGRAPH COPY
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 5:30 PM, BROOKLYN, NY
WHEN: Sunday, May 20, 2012 @ 5:30pm
WHERE 1 Grand Army Plaza
(New glass building tower; opposite Brooklyn Public Library on Eastern Parkway)
Literary lovers, you don't have to be from
Gouyave, Grenada, to enjoy this book.
Around October or November, Anthony DeCoteau, known by his Grenada Boys Secondary School (GBSS) friends and hostel mates as "Cortex," downloaded me the manuscript of A Place Called Gouyave. I planned to watch the New York Giants that evening but instead found myself reading and enjoying DeCoteau's book. Early next morning I finished and called DeCoteau to congratulate him and to discuss some of the episodes.
For example, he discussed Hurricane Janet. The morning of September 22, 1955, Headmaster Eli Peters closed the Anglican School and I suspect schools around Grenada were ordered to do the same thing. Since most adults in Gouyave did not believe a hurricane was approaching little boys, including me, went to bathe in the sea until early afternoon when the sea was becoming real rough and some responsible adults commanded us to leave.
Yet, A Place Called Gouyave is more than a chronicle about growing up in this small and historic town in Grenada. Most Caribbean persons regardless to island of birth or where raised would enjoy and appreciate DeCoteau's book. What someone recently wrote about the book is so true, "At the end don't be surprised if your mind reverts to your own hometown and smile at the things you used to love. But as one reviewer noted, A PLACE CALLED GOUYAVE leaves room 'for a learning moment among the more sophisticated readers who seek to understand the fundamentals of the Caribbean people in general.' In other words A PLACE CALLED GOUYAVE is a book that will surely bring back a flood of memories about your own hometown."
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