Join us in person as we explore books from different genres every month. This month's genre is Murder Mystery/Crime Fiction: The Heaven &\ ; Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. \;
\nIn 1972\, when workers in Pottstown\, Pennsylvania\, we re digging the foundations for a new development\, the last thing they exp ected 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 reside nts of Chicken Hill\, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews an d \;African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorr ows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integr ated 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 toge ther to keep the boy safe.
\nAs these c haracters' stories overlap and deepen\, it becomes clear how much the peop le 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 hap pened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played i n it\, McBride shows us that even in dark times\, it is love and community --heaven and earth--that sustain us.
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