The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel

**Named a Must Read for the Summer*The New York Times* • *The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • Time* • AARP • *Town & Country *• *St. Louis Post-Dispatch*"We all need--we all *deserve --*this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us." --Ron Charles, *The Washington Post*From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick *Deacon King Kong* and the National Book Award-winning *The Good Lord Bird* , a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them**In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was 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...