Format:
Book
Author:
McBride, James, 1957- author.
Title:
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store / James McBride.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2023
Description:
385 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"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." --publisher's website.
Subjects:
Communities -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Communities -- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Communities -- Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Deaf children -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction
Other Title:
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
ISBN:
9780593743775
9780593422946 (hardcover)
0593422945 (hardcover)
System Availability:
17
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
17
Control Number:
3454371
Call Number:
MCBR
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
5
# System items in:
5