Format:
Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording
Author:
McBride, James, 1957- author.
Title:
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store [sound recording] / James McBride.
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publisher, Date:
[New York, NY] : Penguin Audio, [2023]
Description:
10 audio discs (12 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
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.
Subjects:
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Fiction.
Jews -- United States -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Deaf children -- Fiction.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Pottstown -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
Other Author:
Hoffman, Dominic, narrator.
Other Title:
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Notes:
Compact disc.
Read by Dominic Hoffman.
ISBN:
9780593684146
0593684141
Publisher or Distributor Number:
PRHA 13679
Other Number:
1389834341
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
2
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
3456745
Call Number:
MCBR
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
0
# System items in:
0
Medium:
[sound recording]