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Also by James McBride:

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, August 2023
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Deacon King Kong, February 2021
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Deacon King Kong, March 2020
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Five-Carat Soul, October 2018
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The Good Lord Bird, February 2014
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The Good Lord Bird, August 2013
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Song Yet Sung, February 2008
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The Color Of Water, February 1997
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride

A Novel

Riverhead Books
August 2023
On Sale: August 8, 2023
400 pages
ISBN: 0593422945
EAN: 9780593422946
Kindle: B0BPNP7YQB
Hardcover / e-Book
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Saga | Multicultural African-American | Historical

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.

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