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Book Discussion

"The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store"

2024-09-09 16:30:00 2024-09-09 17:30:00 America/New_York Book Discussion Duncan Falls/Philo Branch Library - Duncan Falls Meeting Room

Monday, September 09
4:30pm - 5:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-09 16:30:00 2024-09-09 17:30:00 America/New_York Book Discussion From James McBride, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them. Duncan Falls/Philo Branch Library - Duncan Falls Meeting Room

Duncan Falls/Philo Branch Library

Duncan Falls Meeting Room

From James McBride, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

"The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride

Copies will be made available for use at the Duncan Falls/Philo Branch Library beginning August 12. 

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.

    Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Skill Building | Book Discussions |

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