Book Discussion Group - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 • 27 Iyyar 5784
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
An instant New York Times bestseller. Workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania find 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 where Chona, a Jew, 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 her husband’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, 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, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.
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