At their December meet-ups, All Booked Up will discuss The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.

In this "charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing" (Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review) novel, a skeleton discovered in the bottom of a well brings to light decades of history in the neighborhood of Chicken Hill, where Jewish immigrants and Black Americans once lived together, sharing sorrows, struggles, and joy. Winner of the 2024 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is part murder mystery, part paean to the power of love and community to preserve us in difficult times.

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