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Corrigan called it one of the best novels she read that year, praising its blend of humor, horror and social history.
James McBride's new novel, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, opens in 1972 in a neighborhood of Pottsville, Pennsylvania called Chicken Hill, a place where immigrant Jews and African Americans have...
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Corrigan called it one of the best novels she read that year, praising its blend of humor, horror and social history.
James McBride's new novel, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, opens in 1972 in a neighborhood of Pottsville, Pennsylvania called Chicken Hill, a place where immigrant Jews and African Americans have lived next to each other for decades. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says that the story that follows is an allAmerican mix of humor, horror, and social history.
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels I've read this year. It pulls off the singular magic trick of being simultaneously flattening and uplifting.