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Bezig met laden... The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel (origineel 2023; editie 2023)door James McBride (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Masterful. Multigenerational. Insightful. ( ) A story of community, racism, stigmas, and resilience. In the town of Pottstown, PA, a story evolves of a town that has been marked by its population of Jews and Christians, blacks and whites, and those who are shunned due to a disability. Moshe and Chona Ludlow are main characters. Moshe integrated his theater and Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. A young deaf boy is going to be institutionalized, but Chona and Nate Timblin, the janitor at Moshe’s theater and leader of the black community on Chicken Hill, decide to keep him safe. We learn of the reasons, and how they worked against biases. Meanwhile, the racist gets his due! I found the story interesting, but I thought the author's note was the most inspiring! Liked it, didn't love it. Characters, and keeping track of all of them, was an issue for me. I didn't really identify with any of them except maybe Chona. The beginning, and ending, which bring the whole thing whole circle, were a bit confusing to me. Moshe and Chona run the Heaven and Earth Grocery store, and Moshe also owns and operates a local theater/dance hall, where both Jewish and Black musicians perform. They help their neighbors, Nate and Addie hide their deaf nephew Dodo from the "state" who believe the boy needs to be institutionalized. Race relations, and prejudice are a big part of the story. I did particularly like the relationships between the Jews and the Black people, who were often friendly and helpful to each other, but never really "understood" the others. This book is set in a small town in Pennsylvania in the 1930s and focuses on the Black and Jewish communities in that town. The Jewish community is generally upwardly-mobile, but one Jewish couple, Moishe and Chona, stay in the Black neighborhood, where he runs a music theater that often caters to a Black audience, and she runs the Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, which never turns a profit but is a community hub thanks to Chona's deep care for her neighbors. Chona takes in a Black boy who has been rendered deaf and orphaned by an exploding stove accident, which creates trouble when white authorities want to put the boy in a mental institution. McBride's writing is witty and delightful. The characters are vivid, and most of them are very lovable. He often goes on long tangents: when a new character is introduced, he'll tell that character's entire life story. These tangents might be frustrating if they weren't all well-written, and the extra detail about the characters adds a lot of depth to their interactions. The characters might suffer from disability, poverty, and racism, but they make up for it with love and care so that the book is ultimately hopeful. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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 where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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