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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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"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 neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. 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 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."--
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| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon Free Library | FIC MCB (Text) Adult Fiction |
52113300582317 |
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| This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | |||
| Bloomfield Public Library | FIC McBride (Text) Adult New Materials |
52133300191331 |
Checked out 10/20/2023 |
| This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | |||
| Bristol Library | FIC MCB (Text) Adult Fiction |
52134300080391 |
Checked out 10/21/2023 |
| This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | |||
| Caledonia Library Association | FIC MCB (Text) Adult Fiction |
52135300341774 |
Checked out 10/13/2023 |
| This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | |||
| Cordelia A. Greene Library - Castile | FIC MCBRIDE (Text) Adult Fiction |
52136000265982 |
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| Dansville Public Library | FIC MCB (Text) Adult Fiction |
52117300666863 |
Checked out 10/23/2023 |
| This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | |||
| Geneva Public Library | FIC MCB (Text) First Floor New Books |
52118301219587 |
Checked out 09/09/2023 |
| This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | |||
| Honeoye Public Library | FIC (Text) New Adult Fiction |
52120300448571 |
Checked out 10/14/2023 |
| This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | |||
| Lima Public Library | FIC MCB (Text) Adult Fiction |
32139002068599 |
Checked out 10/14/2023 |
| Lima Public Library | MCN FIC MCB (Text) McNaughton |
52139000880453 |
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