Lee Branch Book Club
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Thursday, May 16
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The East 59 Café - Lee Branch
East 59 Meeting RoomMeet for a popular read, lots of stimulating conversation and coffee.
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 neighbourhood 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.
The East 59 Café - Lee Branch
The East 59 Café - Lee Branch
| Mon, Nov 02 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Tue, Nov 03 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Wed, Nov 04 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Thu, Nov 05 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Fri, Nov 06 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Nov 07 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Nov 08 | 1:00PM to 5:00PM |
Suite 103
Hoover, Alabama 35242
Registration required. One slot per patron.
