Grandma's traditional Jamaican wake brought me closer to the Windrush generation
The 'nine night' ritual of gathering to eat, drink and swap stories helped Natasha Gordon connect with her family's past " and inspired her first playNatasha Gordon's grandparents arrived in London from Jamaica " a three-week boat voyage undertaken by thousands of their compatriots " in the late 1950s. Her mother, then 16, joined them in 1963, finding work, a Jamaican-born husband and a reassuringly familiar West Ind…