The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: a novel
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York, NY : Riverhead Books, 2023.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
385 pages ; 24 cm
Status:
23 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION
FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023
“A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review
“We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
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 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.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION
FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023
“A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review
“We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
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 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.
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
Ashland Adult Fiction
MCBRIDE
Due Sep 24, 2024
Bayfield Adult Fiction
FIC MCB (c. 2)
Due Sep 17, 2024
Bayfield Adult Fiction
FIC MCB
In Transit
Boulder Junction Adult Fiction
FIC MCB
Due Sep 14, 2024
Cable Adult Fiction
FIC MCB
On Holdshelf
Eagle River Adult Fiction
FIC MCB
Due Sep 18, 2024
Grantsburg Adult Fiction
NEW MCBRIDE
On Holdshelf
Hayward Adult And Young Adult Fiction
MCB
Due Sep 26, 2024
Hurley Adult Fiction
F MCB
On Holdshelf
Lac Courte Oreilles Mystery
MYSTERY MCBRIDE
In Transit
Land O Lakes Adult Fiction
FIC MCB
In Transit
Madeline Island Adult Fiction
F MCB
Due Sep 19, 2024
Manitowish Waters Adult Fiction
F McB
In Transit
Mercer Adult Fiction
F MCB
Due Sep 20, 2024
Phelps Adult Fiction
Fic McB
Due Aug 23, 2024
Presque Isle Adult Fiction
NEW F McB
Due Sep 18, 2024
Sayner Adult Fiction
NEW McBRIDE
Due Sep 18, 2024
Spooner Adult Fiction
F MCB
On Holdshelf
Superior Adult Fiction
FICTION McBride, James
Due Sep 27, 2024
Washburn Adult Fiction
FIC MCB
Due Sep 26, 2024
Webster Adult Fiction
FIC MCB HC
On Holdshelf
Webster Adult Fiction
FIC MCB HC
Due Sep 19, 2024
Winter Adult Fiction
F MCB
Due Sep 19, 2024
Subjects
LC Subjects
African Americans -- Fiction.
Deaf children -- Fiction.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Pottstown -- Fiction.
Jews -- United States -- Fiction.
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) -- Fiction.
Minorities -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction.
Deaf children -- Fiction.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Pottstown -- Fiction.
Jews -- United States -- Fiction.
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) -- Fiction.
Minorities -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction.
Other Subjects
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593422946, 0593422945
Notes
Description
"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." --publisher's website.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
McBride, J. (2023). The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: a novel. New York, NY, Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)McBride, James, 1957-. 2023. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel. New York, NY, Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)McBride, James, 1957-, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel. New York, NY, Riverhead Books, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)McBride, James. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel. New York, NY, Riverhead Books, 2023.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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