{"product_id":"the-heaven-earth-grocery-store-hardcover","title":"The Heaven \u0026 Earth Grocery Store - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames McBride\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Must Read for the Summer\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - Time\u003c\/i\u003e - AARP - \u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"McBride's pages burst with life... This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in which people look out for one another.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(STARRED REVIEW) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The interlocking destinies of [McBride's] characters make for tense, absorbing drama and, at times, warm, humane comedy. ... If it's possible for America to have a poet laureate, why can't James McBride be its storyteller-in-chief?\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (STARRED REVIEW) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Funny, tender, knockabout, gritty, and suspenseful, McBride's microcosmic, socially critiquing, and empathic novel dynamically celebrates difference, kindness, ingenuity, and the force that compels us to move heaven and earth to help each other.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (STARRED REVIEW) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e and the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u0026amp; 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to \u003ci\u003eThe Heaven \u0026amp; Earth Grocery Store\u003c\/i\u003e, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong \u003c\/i\u003eand as inventive as \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames McBride\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling Oprah's Book Club selection \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e, the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, the American classic \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Water\u003c\/i\u003e, the novels \u003ci\u003eSong Yet Sung \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMiracle at St. Anna\u003c\/i\u003e, the story collection \u003ci\u003eFive-Carat Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKill 'Em and Leave\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal and an accomplished musician, McBride is also a distinguished writer in residence at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.41 x 9.28 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453244424370,"sku":"9780593422946","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/19a269a4236d4d8bc3e3d3f548926991.webp?v=1778824918","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}