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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is a novel by American writer James McBride.It was released in 2023 to critical success. The novel tells the story of Black and Jewish residents of the Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in the 1920s and '30s.
McBride's father, Rev. Andrew D. McBride (August 8, 1911 – April 5, 1957) was African-American; he died of cancer at the age of 45.His mother, Ruchel Dwajra Zylska (name changed to Rachel Deborah Shilsky, and later to Ruth McBride Jordan; April 1, 1921 – January 9, 2010), was a Jewish immigrant from Poland.
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McBride’s “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” and Brinkley’s “Witness” are nominated. NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by James McBride and Alice McDermott and a short story collection by Jamel ...
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” James McBride’s tour de force of a new novel, opens in 1972, when authorities discover a human skeleton and mezuzah at the bottom of a well in the small ...
McBride has been among the country's most honored authors in recent years, winning a National Book Award for “Good Lord Bird,” the Kirkus Prize for “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" and the Carnegie Medal for “Deacon King Kong,” which Oprah Winfrey chose for her book club. In 2016, he was given a National Humanities Medal.
James McBride: 2010s. Award winners and finalists, 2010–2019 [14] Year Book ... The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store: James McBride: Let Us Descend: Jesmyn Ward:
McBride has been among the country’s most honored authors in recent years, winning a National Book Award for “Good Lord Bird,” the Kirkus Prize for “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” and ...