The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
400 pages | paperback |
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From James McBride, author of the bestselling OprahââŹâ˘s Book Club pickĂ Deacon King KongĂ and the National Book AwardââŹâwinningĂ The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidatedĂ neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at MosheââŹâ˘s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.
Ă Ă Ă Ă As these charactersââŹâ˘ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the townââŹâ˘s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and communityââŹâheaven and earthââŹâthat sustain us.
Ă Ă Ă Ă Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity toĂ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate asĂ Deacon King KongĂ and as inventive asĂ The Good Lord Bird.
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400 pages | paperback |
Ă
From James McBride, author of the bestselling OprahââŹâ˘s Book Club pickĂ Deacon King KongĂ and the National Book AwardââŹâwinningĂ The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidatedĂ neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at MosheââŹâ˘s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.
Ă Ă Ă Ă As these charactersââŹâ˘ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the townââŹâ˘s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and communityââŹâheaven and earthââŹâthat sustain us.
Ă Ă Ă Ă Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity toĂ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate asĂ Deacon King KongĂ and as inventive asĂ The Good Lord Bird.
