CHI (V) - City Book Cub - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
About this event
Hello Readers,
We'll be meeting via Zoom on Tuesday, May 26 at 7pm to discuss The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store: A Novel by James McBride.
This is a New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century and winner of The 2024 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
The link is provided below and will be sent again on May 26.
It is 1972 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania and Chicken Hill is a dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans live side by side and share ambitions and sorrows.
"As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us."
Meeting ID:
Meeting ID: 818 2662 2099
Passcode:
Passcode: 631112
Event Contact(s)
Delanne Mccormick
Registration Info
Registration is required
Registration modifications are permitted until Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Monday, May 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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