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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel (originale 2023; edizione 2023)di James McBride (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Heaven and Earth Grocery Store di James McBride (2023)
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   ) DonnaMarieMerritt | May 14, 2024 |  ) nyiper | May 12, 2024 | In the town of Pottstown, PA, a story evolves of a town that has been marked by its population of Jews and Christians, blacks and whites, and those who are shunned due to a disability. Moshe and Chona Ludlow are main characters. Moshe integrated his theater and Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. A young deaf boy is going to be institutionalized, but Chona and Nate Timblin, the janitor at Moshe’s theater and leader of the black community on Chicken Hill, decide to keep him safe. We learn of the reasons, and how they worked against biases. Meanwhile, the racist gets his due! I found the story interesting, but I thought the author's note was the most inspiring! (  ) rmarcin | May 9, 2024 | Moshe and Chona run the Heaven and Earth Grocery store, and Moshe also owns and operates a local theater/dance hall, where both Jewish and Black musicians perform. They help their neighbors, Nate and Addie hide their deaf nephew Dodo from the "state" who believe the boy needs to be institutionalized. Race relations, and prejudice are a big part of the story. I did particularly like the relationships between the Jews and the Black people, who were often friendly and helpful to each other, but never really "understood" the others. (  ) cherybear | May 7, 2024 | McBride's writing is witty and delightful. The characters are vivid, and most of them are very lovable. He often goes on long tangents: when a new character is introduced, he'll tell that character's entire life story. These tangents might be frustrating if they weren't all well-written, and the extra detail about the characters adds a lot of depth to their interactions. The characters might suffer from disability, poverty, and racism, but they make up for it with love and care so that the book is ultimately hopeful. ( ) Gwendydd | May 4, 2024 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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."-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6000Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (4.12)
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