The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is the title of National Book Award winner James McBride’s newest novel and the center of the fictional universe he creates in 1920s Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where Blacks and Jews live side by side. Interconnected plots peopled with memorable characters illustrate cultures specific to race and ethnicity and community that transcends both in a world where people can be selfish or generous, evil or heroic. Here’s what Kirkus Reviews says:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-mcbride/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store/

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About Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines including Cagibi Literary Journal, Stoneboat, The Aurorean, The Ocotillo Review, London Reader, and in anthologies including for a better world 2020 and Anthology of Appalachian Writers Vol. X. He received Kentucky State Poetry Society’s Chaffin/Kash Prize in 2019. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, but summers in Ecstasy and winters in Despair.

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