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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Family & relationships
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- Trade Paperback Aug 8, 2023 | 9781399620413 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
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- Trade Paperback Aug 8, 2023 | 9781399620413 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Jul 30, 2024 | 9781399620420 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Feb 13, 2024 | 9781399620406 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 8, 2023 | 9781399620444 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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- Trade Paperback Aug 8, 2023 | 9781399620413 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Jul 30, 2024 | 9781399620420 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Feb 13, 2024 | 9781399620406 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
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From the bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride, a must-read novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
'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
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK
AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR
BOOK OF THE YEAR IN: THE GUARDIAN, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES, TIME MAGAZINE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, OPRAH DAILY AND WASHINGTON POST
WINNER OF THE 2023 KIRKUS FICTION PRIZE
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 immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.
As the story moves back in time to the 1930s and the characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us.
More books by James Mcbride
Praise for The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: The Million-Copy Bestseller
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The interlocking destinies of McBride's characters make for tense, absorbing drama and, at times, warm, humane comedy. . . If it's possible for America to have a poet laureate, why can't James McBride be its storyteller-in-chief? - Kirkus, Starred Review
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McBride entertains us and shows us both the beauty and the ugliness of humanity - NPR
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McBride is an acknowledged master of high-resolution historical fiction, peppered with wit and insight - Goodreads
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Funny, tender, knockabout, gritty and suspenseful, McBride's microcosmic, socially critiquing and empathic novel dynamically celebrates difference, kindness, ingenuity and the force that compels us to move heaven and earth to help each other - Booklist
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Shouldn't we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade's Great American Novelist? - Los Angeles Times
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Hypnotically entertaining - Washington Post
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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. - ANN PATCHETT
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A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing. - Danez Smith, New York Times Book Review
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If it's possible for America to have a poet laureate, why can't James McBride be its storyteller-in-chief? - Kirkus, Starred Review
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A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing. - New York Times Book Review
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Shouldn't we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade's Great American Novelist? - Los Angeles Times
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If it's possible for America to have a poet laureate, why can't James McBride be its storyteller-in-chief? - Kirkus, Starred Review
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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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We all need - we all deserve - this vibrant, love-affirming novel - Washington Post
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A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . a charming, smart, heart-blistering and heart-healing novel - New York Times Book Review
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Epic . . . Glorious. An uplifting tale of kindness and community - Observer
James Mcbride
James McBride is an award-winning writer and musician. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post, People magazine, and the Boston Globe. His memoir and tribute to his mother, The Color of Water, spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, was published worldwide, and was the winner of the prestigious Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. As a composer, he won the American Music Theater Festival's Stephen Sondheim Award for his jazz/pop musical Bobos, and has composed songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., and Gary Burton. A jazz saxophonist, he has performed with Rachelle Farrell and with legendary jazz performer Little Jimmy Scott. He lives in Pennsylvania.
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