Rank #53
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (James McBride)
fiction
McBride's 2023 National Book Critics Circle winner. Pennsylvania immigrant-Jewish-and-Black community in the 1930s. Beloved across reading groups.
From Wikipedia
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is a novel by American writer James McBride. It was released in 2023 to critical success. The novel tells the story of Black and Jewish residents of the Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in the 1920s and '30s.