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Join us to discuss THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride. For a copy of the book and the Zoom link, contact Amy Becker-Perez at aperez@cooklib.org. DROP IN
"In 1972, workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania find 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. Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived in Chicken Hill 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 unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe."-- Provided by publisher.
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