Book Club on Zoom

15 Sep @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

The Book Club will discuss The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride, a murder mystery inside a great American novel.

It opens with the 1972 discovery of a skeleton in a well, and then flashes back to the 1920s and ‘30s to explore its connection to a town’s Black, Jewish and immigrant history. “With this story, McBride brilliantly captures a rapidly changing country, as seen through the eyes of the recently arrived and the formerly enslaved people of Chicken Hill. He has reached back into our shared past when, by migration and violence, segregation and collision, America was still becoming America.”