
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride · 2023
A Black and Jewish community in 1930s Pottstown, Pennsylvania protect a deaf Black child from the state. McBride's novel is warm, funny, generous, and quietly devastating; a portrait of solidarity between marginalized communities written with the grace of a master storyteller.
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