HCP Book Group: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

The next book for discussion is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, Winner of the National Book Award and B&N Book of the Year 2023.  We will meet on Sunday, January 28th at 3:00 pm at a Center City home. The group will be limited to eight people and be an in-person event only.

  

About the book: 

jamesmcbrideIn 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.

  

Host / Lead Organizer: Susan Robinson

Date: Sunday, January 28th at 3:00 pm.

Location: Address will be included in confirmation email. 

Coffee and tea will be provided.

  

Limited to 8 people. 

    

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When:

3:00PM - 5:00PM Sun 28 Jan 2024, Eastern timezone

Where:


Philadelphia, PA 19102

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Thomas Eoyang
Alice Rossmann
Susan Robinson
Samantha Fields
Ayosike Akingbade
Andrea Kirsh
Wendy Horwitz
Jasmin Smoots
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