{"product_id":"the-heaven-earth-grocery-store","title":"The Heaven \u0026 Earth Grocery Store","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE RUNAWAY \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK - A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eREADERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFROM ONE OF \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MAGAZINE'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eNPR\/FRESH AIR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e, AND \u003ci\u003eTIME MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.\" --Danez Smith, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We all need--we all \u003ci\u003edeserve--\u003c\/i\u003ethis vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.\" --Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e and the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u0026amp; 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to \u003ci\u003eThe Heaven \u0026amp; Earth Grocery Store\u003c\/i\u003e, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong \u003c\/i\u003eand as inventive as \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45983561810093,"sku":"9780593422953","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/6954\/9997\/files\/imageloader_09338997-dd73-44fd-9567-98dfc173de58.jpg?v=1778081438","url":"https:\/\/thirdspacereadingroom.com\/products\/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store","provider":"ThirdSpace Reading Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}