The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

…2023 McBride earned raves for The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Part murder mystery, part historical fiction, the novel follows the friendships and divisions among the Jewish and Black residents of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in the 1920s and ’30s.

McBride’s novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023) also received great critical acclaim. Barnes & Noble named the novel its 2023 Book of the Year, and McBride won the 2023 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Set mostly in the 1920s and ’30s in the Chicken Hill neighborhood…