The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride (author)

Paperback Published on: 26/09/2024

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A novel Steinbeck could've written.

From it opening paragraph which tells of a skeleton being found in a well we know we are in the hands of a masterful storyteller. James McBride's The Heav... READ MORE

Jo Morpeth

Synopsis

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 Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side through the 1920s and '30s.

In this novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them, James McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us.

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781399620420
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 280g
Dimensions: 128 x 194 x 28 mm

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A brilliant tour de force

It is uncommon to read a book that holds me spellbound from the first page to the final lines but this is one that absolutely does. The tale and the tellin... READ MORE

Gillian Schiller