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008 230301s2023 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a2023009854
020 _a9780593422946
040 _cAJM
042 _apcc
043 _an-us-pa
100 1 _aMcBride, James,
_d1957-
_eauthor.
_916620
245 1 4 _aThe Heaven & Earth Grocery Store /
_cJames McBride.
246 3 _aHeaven and Earth Grocery Store
264 1 _aNew York :
_bRiverhead Books,
_c2023.
300 _a385 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
520 _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.
610 2 0 _aKu Klux Klan (1915- )
_vFiction.
_916621
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_vFiction.
_910388
650 0 _aJews
_vFiction.
_96617
650 0 _aDeaf
_vFiction.
_916622
650 0 _aMurder
_xInvestigation
_vFiction.
_9484
651 0 _aPennsylvania
_vFiction.
_99602
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2lcgft.
_9129
655 7 _aNovels.
_2lcgft.
_950
907 _a.b17963348x
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
999 _c29519
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