The Heaven x{0026} Earth Grocery Store

Resumen del libro

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 x{0026} 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.

Biografía del autor

James McBride (Nueva York, 1957) es saxofonista, guionista y novelista. Estudió periodismo en la Universidad de Columbia y ha colaborado con The Boston Globe, The Washington Post y People, entre otras publicaciones. Dos de sus novelas han sido llevadas al cine por Spike Lee. En 2013 recibió el National Book Award por su novela El pájaro carpintero y, en 2016, el presidente Barack Obama le concedió la prestigiosa National Humanities Medal.