Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

‘I loved this book’ BONNIE GARMUS

‘A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community’ LOUISE KENNEDY

‘I can’t recommend this one highly enough ‘ HARLAN COBEN

‘THIS is his best book’ ANN PATCHETT

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

BARACK OBAMA’S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK

AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR

BOOK OF THE YEAR IN: THE GUARDIAN, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES, TIME MAGAZINE, HARPER’S BAZAAR, OPRAH DAILY AND WASHINGTON POST

WINNER OF THE 2023 KIRKUS FICTION PRIZE

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 Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side through the 1920s and ’30s.

In this novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them, James McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community – heaven and earth – that sustain us.

The million-copy bestseller: a literary murder-mystery about communities standing together against power and oppression

About the Author: 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.

26 Sep 2024
 

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: The Million-Copy Bestseller by James McBride ISBN 9781399620420