On March 9 at 2:30 we will discuss The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride at St. Matthew’s.
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a human skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were just 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. 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.
“We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Save the date: On April 6 we will discuss Long Island by Colm Tóibín.
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