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By (author) McBride James
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The million-copy bestseller: a literary murder-mystery about communities standing together against power and oppression
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WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
BARACK OBAMA”S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK
AMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR
”I loved this book”
BONNIE GARMUS
”A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community”
LOUISE KENNEDY
”I can”t recommend this one highly enough ”
HARLAN COBEN
”THIS is his best book”
ANN PATCHETT
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 neighbourhood where Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side through the 1920s and ”30s.
In this novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them, James McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community – heaven and earth – that sustain us.
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I keep thinking every time I read one of his books, ”That”s his best book.” No. THIS is his best book
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I loved this book. An intricate weaving of race and prejudice told with heart and hope
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I loved this. A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community against corruption and bigotry. It”s also a lot of fun
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When I met James McBride, I felt like I”d had coffee with a hysterically funny 21st century Leo Tolstoy . . .
His excellence in the art of storytelling defies gravity. He writes about deep American wounds with love, rage and a sense of wit . . . If James is one of the most influential artists in America, then there is great hope for America
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This is one of those novels that becomes a part of you. It”s a great book. Every character is rich; every detail is rich. I can”t recommend this one highly enough
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Epic . . . Glorious. An uplifting tale of kindness and community
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A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . a charming, smart, heart-blistering and heart-healing novel
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Wonderful . . . McBride is a fabulous talent, and expertly marshals a vast array of characters with a polyphony of voices
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Shouldn”t we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade”s Great American Novelist?
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This book teaches me and gives me hope! It makes me want to be an ally of all that is good, deep, and just. Do yourself a favour, get lost in it, it”s story telling at its finest
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McBride looks squarely at savage truths about race and prejudice, but he also insists on humour and hope.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
is one of the best novels I”ve read this year
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With his eccentric, larger-than-life characters and outrageous scenes of spliced tragedy and comedy, “Dickensian” is not too grand afor his novels, but the term is ultimately too condescending and too Anglican. The melodrama that McBride spins is wholly his own, steeped in our country”s complex racial tensions and alliances. Surely, the time is not too far distant when we”ll refer to other writers” hypnotically entertaining stories as McBridean . . . We all need – we all deserve – this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that cl
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