Book Review: “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store”

With this story, McBride brilliantly captures a rapidly changing country, as seen through the eyes of the recently arrived and the formerly enslaved.

Through this evocation, McBride offers us a thorough reminder: 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, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows 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.

Please save the date for this phenomenal book review and enlightening discussion.

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