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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.
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.
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.