The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

A Novel

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<b>THE RUNAWAY <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br><br>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK • A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br><br><b><b>WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION</b><br><br>FROM ONE OF <i>TIME</i> MAGAZINE'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024<br><br>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY <i>NPR/FRESH AIR</i>, <i>WASHINGTON POST</i>, <i>THE NEW YORKER</i>, AND <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i><br><br>ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023<br><br>“A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>“We all need—we all <i>deserve—</i>this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles, <i>The Washington Post</i><br><br>From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick <i>Deacon King Kong</i> and the National Book Award–winning <i>The Good Lord Bird</i>, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them<br><br>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 &amp; 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.<br><br>As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780593714669

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

230 x 154 x 29 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin LLC US