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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store invites readers to enter the bustle and diversity of the Golden Age of Pottsville, PA in the 1930s. In the neighborhood grocery store, a mix of Jewish and Black neighbors come together into a mishmash of opportunity and marginalism.  MacBride veers with irreverence and humor among the realities of immigration, discrimination, entrepreneurship, culture, and capitalism.

Described by the Washington Post as a “vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us,” this fifth novel of McBride promises to stir hearts and minds of all readers.

James McBride

James McBride is an award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, published in 1996, has sold millions of copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list.  McBride has toured as a saxophonist sideman with jazz legend Jimmy Scott, among other musicians. A native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools, McBride has received degrees in music composition and journalism. In 2015, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama “for humanizing the complexities of discussing race in America.” He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.