The unforgettable new novel from the National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama pick, James McBride. 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. Review. I keep thinking every time I read one of his books, Thats 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. Shouldnt we just get it over with and declare McBride this decades 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 Ive 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 countrys complex racial tensions and alliances. Surely, the time is not too far distant when well 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.
McBrides pages burst with life . . . This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in which people look out for one another ― Publishers Weekly.
About the Author - James McBride is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Oprahs 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.
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