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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store By James McBride

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

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From the author of National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite, a compassionate and unforgettable new novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them

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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The unforgettable novel about small town secrets from the National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite, James McBride.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2023 KIRKUS FICTION PRIZE

'I keep thinking every time I read one of his books, That's his best book. No. THIS is his best book' ANN PATCHETT
'A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . a charming, smart, heart-blistering and heart-healing novel' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'We all need - we all deserve - this vibrant, love-affirming novel' WASHINGTON POST

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 neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.

As the story moves back in time to the 1930s and the characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Reviews

I keep thinking every time I read one of his books, 'That's his best book.' No. THIS is his best book. * ANN PATCHETT *
A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . a charming, smart, heart-blistering and heart-healing novel * Danez Smith, New York Times Book Review *
Shouldn't we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade's Great American Novelist? * Los Angeles Times *
McBride looks squarely at savage truths about race and prejudice, but he also insists on humour and hope. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels I've read this year. * Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air *

With his eccentric, larger-than-life characters and outrageous scenes of spliced tragedy and comedy, 'Dickensian' is not too grand a description for his novels, but the term is ultimately too condescending and too Anglican. The melodrama that McBride spins is wholly his own, steeped in our country's complex racial tensions and alliances. Surely, the time is not too far distant when we'll refer to other writers' hypnotically entertaining stories as McBridean . . . We all need - we all deserve - this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us

* Ron Charles, Washington Post *
McBride entertains us and shows us both the beauty and the ugliness of humanity * NPR *
McBride's pages burst with life . . . This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in which people look out for one another * Publishers Weekly *
The interlocking destinies of McBride's characters make for tense, absorbing drama and, at times, warm, humane comedy. . . If it's possible for America to have a poet laureate, why can't James McBride be its storyteller-in-chief? * Kirkus, Starred Review *
McBride is an acknowledged master of high-resolution historical fiction, peppered with wit and insight * Goodreads *
Funny, tender, knockabout, gritty and suspenseful, McBride's microcosmic, socially critiquing and empathic novel dynamically celebrates difference, kindness, ingenuity and the force that compels us to move heaven and earth to help each other * Booklist *
It's hard to imagine anyone being able to write to the caliber of Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones, but James McBride does just that * Dallas Morning News *
A modern-day Mark Twain * New York Times Book Review *
Mesmerizing, moving, almost magical . . . a miracle of storytelling that will leave you laughing and crying * The Associated Press *
Revolutionary * Slate *
This is one of those novels that becomes a part of you. It's a great book. Every character is rich; every detail is rich. I can't recommend this one highly enough -- Harlan Coben

About James McBride

James McBride is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Oprah's Book Club selection Deacon King Kong, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, the million-copy-bestselling memoir The Colour of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal and an accomplished musician, McBride is also a distinguished writer in residence at New York University.

Additional information

NGR9781399620406
9781399620406
1399620401
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
James McBride
New
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
2023-11-09
400
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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