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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store A Novel

James McBride

THE RUNAWAY 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...

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The book was highlighted as a story set in a 1925 Black and Jewish neighborhood where neighbors unite to save a deaf, mute boy from institutionalization.

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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride is mostly set in the historically Black and immigrant Jewish neighborhood of Chicken Hill in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1925, where neighbors band t...

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The book was highlighted as a story set in a 1925 Black and Jewish neighborhood where neighbors unite to save a deaf, mute boy from institutionalization.

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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride is mostly set in the historically Black and immigrant Jewish neighborhood of Chicken Hill in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1925, where neighbors band together to save a 12yearold Black boy who has been branded deaf and dumb.

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