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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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ISBN-13:
9780593714669
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.08.2023
Seiten:
400
Autor:
James McBride
Gewicht:
468 g
Format:
230x154x29 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
James McBride is the author of the New York Times bestselling Oprah s Book Club selection Deacon King Kong, the National Book Award winning The Good Lord Bird, the American classic The Color of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. One of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2024 and the recipient of a National Humanities Medal, as well as being an accomplished musician, McBride is a distinguished writer in residence at New York University.
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023
A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing. Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review
We all need we all deserve this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us. Ron Charles, The Washington Post
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
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.
Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023
A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing. Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review
We all need we all deserve this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us. Ron Charles, The Washington Post
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
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.
Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.