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2023

Format:	Book
Author:	McBride, James, 1957- author.
Title:	The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store / James McBride.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. ©2023
Description:	385 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	"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 dilapidated 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 Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' 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 town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Jews -- United States -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. Deaf children -- Fiction. Ethnic neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Pottstown -- Fiction. Neighbors -- Fiction. Secrecy -- Fiction. Minorities -- Fiction. African Americans. Deaf children. Ethnic neighborhoods. Ethnic relations. Jews. Minorities. Neighbors. Secrecy. African Americans -- Fiction. Jews -- Fiction. Neighbors -- Fiction. Neighborhood -- Fiction. Secrecy -- Fiction. Cities and towns -- Fiction. United States -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction. Pennsylvania -- Pottstown. United States.
Genre:	Historical fiction. Novels. Fiction. Historical fiction. Social problem fiction. Historical fiction. Social problem fiction. Novels.
Other Title:	Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Contents:	Part I: Gone. The hurricane -- A bad sign -- Twelve -- Dodo -- The stranger -- Challah -- A new problem -- Paper -- The robin and the sparrow -- The skrup shoe -- Part II: Gotten. Monkey pants -- Cowboy -- Differing weights and measures -- The worm -- The visit -- The bullfrog -- The hot dog -- Part III: The last love. The lowgods -- The Antes house -- The marble -- Without a song -- Bernice's bible -- Duck boy -- The deal -- The job -- The finger -- The last love -- Waiting for the future -- Epilogue: The call out.
Web Site:	Web Link
ISBN:	9780593422946 0593422945 9780593422946 0593422945 978xxxxxxxxxx
Other Number:	1355609649
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James McBride is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Oprah’s Book Club selection Deacon King Kong, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, the American classic The Color of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill ’Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. One of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2024 and the recipient of a National Humanities Medal, as well as being an accomplished musician, McBride is a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. - (Penguin Putnam)

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