Malcolm K Chadbourne

Greta and Caps Malcolm K Chadbourne

Chester, known as "Caps," an innocent teen-age boy living in a small town in Ohio, comes to learn about new things such as Reiki healing, Swedish superstitions and games, pileated woodpeckers, and the migration of monarch butterflies. This happens as he delivers the local newspaper to Greta Olson, a middle-aged Swedish immigrant. At the same time, Caps teaches Greta new things such as the correct placement of flags on a flag pole, how to serve on a jury, avoiding scams from telephone calls from foreign lands, and playing the lottery. As the weeks go by, punctuated by Caps' weekly delivery of the Benton Times, an unlikely friendship develops which both Caps and Greta welcome, but neither one could have anticipated.