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Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, <u class="showmore_hide">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."--</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_ca768a19');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ></td></tr></table></div><div id="workpagesort_10" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><span style="font-size:9px;font-weight:normal;"><a value="all members" value="all members" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn ltbtn-button-float-right btn-tiny btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/work/29633441/members/" ><span class="btntxt">all members</span></a></span></div><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'members', 'u_b4d77d81', '0');"><span class="chdivot" 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HEAVEN AND EARTH tells the story of the town of Pottstown, Pennsylvania in the 1920’s and the disparate group of people who live there. The Jews and the Colored live on the hillside above the town, the “arrived on the Mayflower” whites live at the bottom of the hill and the “new” immigrants live somewhere in the middle. Do they get along? Well, maybe.<br>Chona, the Jewish woman who has always lived in Pottstown and runs the grocery store is a good (and beautiful) woman. She lives among and is friends with the Colored folk who live about her on the hill. She feeds everyone whether or not they can pay. Her husband is the successful owner of the TWO local live music theaters that cater to both Colored and white folk. The local doctor is enamored of Chona and is NOT a good doctor although he is the only doctor. <br>In 1972, long after Chona, her husband and Doc are gone, a skeleton is found in an abandoned well. Who is at the bottom of the well and why? And that, friends, is the plot of the story. <br>Excellent writing, characters that leap off the page and a plot that will keep you guessing are the hallmark of this author. McBride has a clear understanding of his characters and the interactions between them. The intricacies of the plot will keep your attention and stay with you long after you have finished the book. Pay careful attention as the “plot thickens” in the last fourth of the book. (If you are triggered by the use of “Colored” or “Negro” you might want to skip this book. Please don’t!) <br>5 of 5 stars <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275830716" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275830716"> </span> </span><!-- reviewVoteInfo --><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275830716" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275830716" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275830716"> </span></span></span> <!-- reviewMods --><span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/beckyhaase" target="_top">beckyhaase</a> | Nov 25, 2024 | <a href="/review/275830716"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> <!-- controlItems --></div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_275461759" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/29633441" data-workid="29633441" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>“The heart can change, but only if it's willing. And the problem with folks who hate is that they ain't willing to change.”<br><br>“If you don’t know who you are, people will tell you. But if you do, it don’t matter what they say.”<br><br>“In the end, it’s not about what you do for yourself. It’s about what you do for others. That’s how you’re remembered.”<br><br>The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is about a diverse community in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, during the mid-20th century. The novel centres on Chona, a Jewish woman who runs a grocery store and, a young boy with disabilities, and the community around them. I found the storyline quite slow to start with, but once Dodo was introduced, I found it picked up quite a bit. While the story comes together at the end, there are some bits that are not well explained, for example, <spoiler>what exactly happened to Monkey Pants and Moshe?</spoiler> <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss7.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275461759" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275461759">1</span> <img title="1 member found this review helpful" id="rvi_275461759" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><!-- reviewVoteInfo --><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275461759" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275461759" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275461759"> </span></span></span> <!-- reviewMods --><span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/eesti23" target="_top">eesti23</a> | Nov 18, 2024 | <a href="/review/275461759"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> <!-- controlItems --></div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_275169818" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/29633441" data-workid="29633441" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This is a fascinating story. It's hard to get into, at first. I thought the mystery would compel me but it didn't. Although I found the first few characters very memorable, I started to lose who was who in the midst of so many. It was hard to stay focused because it seemed like there were so many side stories and subplots - that I kept forgetting where pieces started and finished and who was where. The ending felt drawn and, now that I'm done, I think I'm still a little dazed. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275169818" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275169818"> </span> </span><!-- reviewVoteInfo --><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275169818" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275169818" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275169818"> </span></span></span> <!-- reviewMods --><span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Trisha_Thomas" target="_top">Trisha_Thomas</a> | Nov 14, 2024 | <a href="/review/275169818"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> <!-- controlItems --></div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_244698738" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/29633441" data-workid="29633441" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Sorry to say this novel didn't work well for me at all. It would almost draw me in with bits of intriguing story and then smother me in wordy repetitious passages where I'd find myself turning a page without having taken in the content. It reminded me of listening to a jazz composition where every so often I'd be engaged in what felt like music, but a lot of the time I'd hear only noise. There are wonderful story elements in here, but I had little patience for the way the novel was put together. I've had similar issues with McBride before, and I think I'm just going to say that stylistically he's not for me, and move on. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss5.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_244698738" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_244698738">1</span> <img title="1 member found this review helpful" id="rvi_244698738" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><!-- reviewVoteInfo --><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_244698738" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_244698738" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_244698738"> </span></span></span> <!-- reviewMods --><span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/laytonwoman3rd" target="_top">laytonwoman3rd</a> | Nov 11, 2024 | <a href="/review/244698738"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> <!-- controlItems --></div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_254921758" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/29633441" data-workid="29633441" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0593422945.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Honestly a 3.75 for me, but with some really strong sections between 4-5 stars. That's my biggest issue with the book--unevenness. Some of the characters are so well written: Moshe, Chona, Dodo, and even "Monkey Pants." There are everyday heroes and everyday criminals and that seems to be a lot of the point. In a small town in Pennsylvania people are living their stories as they intersect with ethnic and racial tensions that range from making assumptions to violence. The book dragged in places for me--I did not find Fatty and Big Soap as compelling as Nate, Paper, and some of the other sundry personalities. McBride town-builds (as opposed to world-builds) and does so very effectively. I just struggled with being teased by one thread only to have it supplanted by another less interesting one.<br><br>What is important, however, is that the book really drives home that the world (and race relations) is NOT black and white. People have intersectional identities that both enrich and complicate their narratives, and McBride zooms in on a town that acts as a microcosm of this more general truth. 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Examples: Hermione Granger, Andrew Jackson, Oberon, St. Paul of Tarsus, or Zeus (Deity)' ><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Chona+Ludlow">Chona Ludlow</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Moshe+Ludlow">Moshe Ludlow</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Dodo">Dodo</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_104f866f' itemType='1' itemNum='29633441' fieldType='2' name='u_104f866f' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Pottstown%2C+Pennsylvania%2C+USA">Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_8aa256e9' itemType='1' itemNum='29633441' fieldType='34' name='u_8aa256e9' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/events/Hurricane+Agnes">Hurricane Agnes</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_7ce45f7e' itemType='1' itemNum='29633441' fieldType='37' name='u_7ce45f7e' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <!-- <tr>--> <!-- <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_awards"></a>--><!--</td>--> <!-- <td>--><!--</td>--> <!-- </tr>--> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_f8da8daa' itemType='1' itemNum='29633441' fieldType='28' name='u_f8da8daa' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." ' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_140af025' itemType='1' itemNum='29633441' fieldType='30' name='u_140af025' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >To Sy Friend, who taught all of us<br>the manning of Tikkun Olam</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_979d1c32' itemType='1' itemNum='29633441' fieldType='25' name='u_979d1c32' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >There was an old Jew who lived at the site of the old synagogue up on Chicken Hill in the town of Pottstown, Pa., and when Pennsylvania State Troopers found the skeleton at the bottom of an old well off Hayes Street, the old Jew's house was the first place they went to.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_6bd47fc2' itemType='1' itemNum='29633441' fieldType='27' name='u_6bd47fc2' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The old man shrugged. Jewish life is portable, he said. (p. 3)</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The Negroes of Chicken Hill loved Chona. They saw her not as a neighbor but as an artery to freedom, for the recollection of Chona's telltale limp as she and her childhood friend, a tall, gorgeous, silent soul named Bernice Davis, walked down the pitted mud roads of the Hill to school each morning was stamped in their collective memory. It was proof of the American possibility of equality: we all can get along no matter what, look at those two. (p. 31)</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >She felt the prayer more than heard it; it started from somewhere deep down and fluttered toward her head like tiny flecks of light, tiny beacons moving like a school of fish, continually swimming away from a darkness that threatened to swallow them (p. 218)</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >They moved slowly like fusgeyers, wanderers seeking a home in Europe, or eru West African tribesmen herded off a ship on a Virginia shore to peer back across the Atlantic in the direction of their homeland one last time, moving toward a common destiny, all of them - Isaac, Nate, and the rest - into a future of American nothing. (p. 225)</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Chona wasn't one of them. She was the one among them who ruined his hate for them, and for that he resented her. (p. 237)</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --><div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_b71e9c02">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_b71e9c02')">show all 6 items</a>)</div><div id="u_b71e9c02" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >He had spent his entire adult life running, ever since he was thirteen -just past Dodo's age - for he was thirteen when he, too, had experienced his own accident, his own explosion. Not from a stove, but from a father who had dragged his family from the perilous Low Country of South Carolina to the promised land of Pennsylvania only to discover that despite living on Hemlock Row among the peaceful Lowgods, justice and freedom had as little currenca in the new land as it had in the old. (p. 353)</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <!-- fwikiItem --></div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_494d98bb' itemType='1' itemNum='29633441' fieldType='26' name='u_494d98bb' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. Content will be hidden unless clicked.' ><div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_f9c3b6b4" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" ><i>"Thank you, Monkey Pants."</i></div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_f9c3b6b4')" id="link_u_f9c3b6b4">(Click to show. 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A blurb is defined as a super-short review, done before the book is published or reviewed professionally. As Rachael Donadio wrote, "Book blurbs are a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith." This field aims to capture that tangle! <b>Note:</b> Please enter only the names of people, not publications. 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on external resources.</p><h2><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/favicon_wikipedia.gif" class="icon">Wikipedia in English</h2><p>None</p></div></div><div id="workpagesort_80" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'desc', 'u_f5b2e520', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Book descriptions</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_f5b2e520" style="display:block;">"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. 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