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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James
McBride
2023

A skeleton at the bottom of a well, unearthed in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1972, leads to the revelation of 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.