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SUMMARY:Wednesday Night Readers
UID:12922
DTSTAMP:20260423T033600Z
DTSTART:20250820T233000Z
DTEND:20250821T003000Z
LOCATION:Byron Public Library District, 100 S Washington St., Byron, IL 61
 010, United States
ROOM: Classroom 1
DESCRIPTION:In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging
  the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to fi
 nd 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 Chic
 ken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrants Jews and African A
 mericans 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 c
 ame looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate 
 Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial lead
 er of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the
  boy safe.As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes
  clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian Ame
 rica 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 on it, McBride shows us that even in dark times
 , it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us. Bringing
  his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in  humanity to The 
 Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as com
 passionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird. Co
 pies of the book will be available for check-out at the Byron Public Libra
 ry. 
URL:https://www.byronlibrary.org/event/wednesday-night-readers-12922
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