The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

The unforgettable new novel from the National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama pick, James McBride. 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 neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. As the story moves back in time to the 1930s and the characters stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us. Review. I keep thinking every time I read one of his books, Thats his best book. No. THIS is his best book. ― ANN PATCHETT. A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . a charming, smart, heart-blistering and heart-healing novel ― Danez Smith, New York Times Book Review. Shouldnt we just get it over with and declare McBride this decades Great American Novelist? ― Los Angeles Times.McBride looks squarely at savage truths about race and prejudice, but he also insists on humour and hope.The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels Ive read this
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