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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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 di...

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Main Author: McBride, James, 1957-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.
Physical Description: 385 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Jews -- United States -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Deaf children -- Fiction.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Pottstown -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Minorities -- Fiction.
Jews -- Fiction.
Neighborhoods -- Fiction.
Cities and towns -- Fiction.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Gone.
  • The hurricane
  • A bad sign
  • Twelve
  • Dodo
  • The stranger
  • Challah
  • A new problem
  • Paper
  • The robin and the sparrow
  • The skrup shoe
  • Gone
  • Gotten.
  • Monkey pants
  • Cowboy
  • Differing weights and measures
  • The worm
  • The visit
  • The bullfrog
  • The hot dog
  • The Last Love.
  • The lowgods
  • The Antes house
  • The marble
  • Without a song
  • Bernice's bible
  • Duck boy
  • The deal
  • The job
  • The finger
  • The last love
  • Waiting for the future
  • Epilogue: The call out.

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