This month we will be discussing "The Heav en &\; Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride:
\n"In 1972\, when w orkers in Pottstown\, Pennsylvania\, were digging the foundations for a ne w 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 t he long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill\, the dilapidat ed neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by s ide and shared ambitions and sorrows.
\nAs these characters' stories overlap and deepen\, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is fina lly revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's w hite establishment played in it\, McBride shows us that even in dark times \, it is love and community-heaven and earth-that sustain us."
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