Between the Lines Book Club: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (APL)
If you like to read a variety of books and like to discuss the books you read, try out our Between the Lines Book Club! In July, we will be discussing “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride. Pick up your copy of the book today at the Aurora or Dillsboro Library!
Anyone 18 is welcome!
Aurora: Thursday, July 25th @ 1 pm
Dillsboro: Friday, July 26th @ 1 pm
Depot: Tuesday, July 30th @ 6:30 pm
“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.
As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins 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.”
