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"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 neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. 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."--… (mais)
I read a lot of books, probably 60 to 70 a year, and “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” is hands down the best book I’ve read in 2023. Being a retired high school English teacher, I choose the fiction I read pretty carefully, caring perhaps more for the writing quality than the story. McBride is one of the most talented writers alive today, and could hold his own with just about any writer from the past as well. In fact, I would say that I haven’t read a book this well written since Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes.” I had to read “Heaven and Earth” relatively fast (at least for me) because my wife and I checked the digital Kindle edition out of our local library. She read it in a day or two, and it sat for a couple of weeks in our “library” on our shared Kindles, almost forgotten. When I realized we had it, I immediately jumped at the chance to read it. Normally I don’t bother trying to get books this popular because inevitably, I get the “Several Months” message when I go to put a hold on it. In other words “Forget It.” I’m actually glad I had to read it fast because I think I enjoyed the story more because of that. James McBride is truly a gifted writer and we are better off for having his writing. ( )
This author is a wonderful storyteller, and at times a decent writer. I think the editorial team could have helped him to revise a few times to make this a 4 or 5 star book.
If this were told by campfire, or in a traditional setting of oral tradition, compelling and awesome. ( )
I am stunned by this book! Layered stories and characters, laugh-out-loud humor, tender and heartbreaking events, complex plot lines. I don't think I've ever read anything like it. I was enthralled.
Setting: a small town in Pennsylvania in the late 1930s, Jewish community mixed with a Black community separated from the white ruling class. Some characters are true mensches, some are despicable.
This is one of those books I wish I'd kept a cheat sheet of characters; it gets a little confusing sometimes - who is related to whom? But that did not slow me down. I can't wait to read another of his books. His writing style is amazing. ( )
Wonderful characters in complicated plot that comes together at the end and ties up all that seemed extraneous but actually wasn’t, exuberant dialogue with a range of voices Excellent narrator ( )
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There was an old Jew who lived at the site of the old synagogue up on Chicken Hill in the town of Pottstown, Pa., and when Pennsylvania State Troopers found the skeleton at the bttom of an old well off Hayes Street, the old Jew's house was the first place they went to.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The old man shrugged. Jewish life is portable, he said. (p. 3)
The Negroes of Chicken Hill loved Chona. They saw her not as a neighbor but as an artery to freedom, for the recollection of Chona's telltale limp as she and her childhood friend, a tall, gorgeous, silent soul named Bernice Davis, walked down the pitted mud roads of the Hill to school each morning was stamped in their collective memory. It was proof of the American possibility of equality: we all can get along no matter what, look at those two. (p. 31)
She felt the prayer more than heard it; it started from somewhere deep down and fluttered toward her head like tiny flecks of light, tiny beacons moving like a school of fish, continually swimming away from a darkness that threatened to swallow them (p. 218)
They moved slowly like fusgeyers, wanderers seeking a home in Europe, or eru West African tribesmen herded off a ship on a Virginia shore to peer back across the Atlantic in the direction of their homeland one last time, moving toward a common destiny, all of them - Isaac, Nate, and the rest - into a future of American nothing. (p. 225)
Chona wasn't one of them. She was the one among them who ruined his hate for them, and for that he resented her. (p. 237)
He had spent his entire adult life running, ever since he was thirteen -just past Dodo's age - for he was thirteen when he, too, had experienced his own accident, his own explosion. Not from a stove, but from a father who had dragged his family from the perilous Low Country of South Carolina to the promised land of Pennsylvania only to discover that despite living on Hemlock Row among the peaceful Lowgods, justice and freedom had as little currenca in the new land as it had in the old. (p. 353)
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"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 neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. 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."--
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