The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The unforgettable new novel from the National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama pick, James McBride.
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 neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.
As the story moves back in time to the 1930s and the characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us.
Review
A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . a charming, smart, heart-blistering and heart-healing novel ― Danez Smith, New York Times Book Review
Shouldn't we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade's Great American Novelist? ― Los Angeles Times
McBride looks squarely at savage truths about race and prejudice, but he also insists on humour and hope.The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels I've read this year. ― Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air
With his eccentric, larger-than-life characters and outrageous scenes of spliced tragedy and comedy, 'Dickensian' is not too grand a description for his novels, but the term is ultimately too condescending and too Anglican. The melodrama that McBride spins is wholly his own, steeped in our country's complex racial tensions and alliances. Surely, the time is not too far distant when we'll refer to other writers' hypnotically entertaining stories as McBridean . . . We all need - we all deserve - this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us
― Ron Charles, Washington PostMcBride entertains us and shows us both the beauty and the ugliness of humanity ― NPR
McBride's pages burst with life . . . This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in which people look out for one another ― Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Podrobnosti
| Autor |
James McBride |
|---|---|
| Vydavatel |
W&N |
| Jazyk | anglicky |
| Vazba | měkká |
| Počet stran | 400 |
| Formát | 15,2 × 23,2 cm |
| EAN | 9781399620413 |
| Rok vydání | 2023 |
| Edice |
Dobrodružné, válečné, historické romány Současná beletrie |
Autor
James McBride
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