The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, 2023
A small Pennsylvania town, a grocery store, and the Black and Jewish neighbors who refuse to let a deaf boy be taken.
James McBride
McBride grew up in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, one of twelve siblings; this novel returns to the town of his childhood.
Feels like family, wonder and morality.
The care it takes to make a question visible.
“You got a hole in your head, son? Was you riding the train this morning? Was that you?” Nate gently touched one of the boy’s hands. They were freezing. He placed the lamp high, holding it so that his lips could be seen. The boy had not been born deaf. An accident killed his hearing. A stove blew up in his mother’s kitchen when he was nine. Killed his eyes and ears. His eyes came back. His ears did not. But he could read lips. Nate held the lamp next to his face so Dodo could see them. Books by James McBride
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