TY - SOUND AU - McBride,James AU - Hoffman,Dominic TI - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: a novel SN - 9780593684146 PY - 2023///] CY - [New York, NY] PB - Penguin Audio KW - Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) KW - Fiction KW - Jews KW - United States KW - African Americans KW - Deaf children KW - Ethnic neighborhoods KW - Pennsylvania KW - Pottstown KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Ethnic relations KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction KW - Novels N1 - Read by Dominic Hoffman N2 - 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 ER -