Book Club

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By James McBride

April 16 @ 1:30

Maury Lootjens Library

25 Pier Market Pl, Narragansett

The National Book award winner James McBride’s groundbreaking book on race, religion, and history. The book is inspired by the author’s grandmother, a Jewish immigrant from Poland who ran a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, during the 1930s and 40s. Primarily centered on a neighborhood called Chicken Hill, where African Americans and Jewish immigrants coexist, the story revolves around its residents.

May’s (May 14) book will be The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis.