The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(Adult Book)
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Adult Fiction - Adult Area
FIC McB
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FIC McB
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African Americans -- Fiction.
Deaf children -- Fiction.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Pottstown -- Fiction.
Jews -- Fiction.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Minorities -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction.
Deaf children -- Fiction.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Pottstown -- Fiction.
Jews -- Fiction.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Minorities -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction.
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Format
Adult Book
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McBride, J. (2023). The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (First large print edition.). Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McBride, James, 1957-. 2023. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McBride, James, 1957-. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Random House Large Print, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McBride, James. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store First large print edition., Random House Large Print, 2023.
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