The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

A Novel

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English language

Published Oct. 5, 2023 by Penguin Publishing Group.

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978-0-593-42296-0
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From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award - winning 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 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 …

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  • Fiction, jewish
  • Fiction, african american & black, historical
  • Fiction, family life, general