02480pam a2200385 i 4500001001600000003000400016005001700020008004100037010001500078020001800093040000800111042000800119043001200127100004300139245005500182246003500237264004000272300002300312336002700335337002900362338002800391520124800419610004301667650003901710650002501749650002601774650004101800651003301841655003701874655002401911907001601935942001401951999001701965952011201982z9port b1774885DLC20240417122953.0230301s2023    nyu           000 1 eng    a2023009854  a9780593422946  cAJM  apcc  an-us-pa1 aMcBride, James,d1957-eauthor.91662014aThe Heaven & Earth Grocery Store /cJames McBride.3 aHeaven and Earth Grocery Store 1aNew York :bRiverhead Books,c2023.  a385 pages ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent.  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia.  avolumebnc2rdacarrier.  a"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."--cProvided by publisher.20aKu Klux Klan (1915- )vFiction.916621 0aAfrican AmericansvFiction.910388 0aJewsvFiction.96617 0aDeafvFiction.916622 0aMurderxInvestigationvFiction.9484 0aPennsylvaniavFiction.99602 7aHistorical fiction.2lcgft.9129 7aNovels.2lcgft.950  a.b17963348x  2ddccBOOK  c29519d29519  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcAFd2024-04-17g28.00l2oMcBRp66014r2024-05-21s2024-05-01w2024-04-17yBOOK11