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From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
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.
As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America 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.
Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.
The new novel from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning,
Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride. 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.
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
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.
As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America 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.
Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.
The new novel from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning,
Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride. 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 "New York Times"bestselling story from the author of "The Good
Lord Bird," winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman
evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her
twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and
son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and
heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, "The Color Of Water: A
Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother."
The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she
was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his
eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook,
Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full
of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural
events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish)
schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young
man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry,
and confusion--and reached thirty before he began to discover the
truth about her early life and long-buried pain.
In "The Color of Water," McBride retraces his mother's footsteps
and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her
remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox
rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska)
in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated
to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small
town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor
and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her
fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father;
and the rest of the family and life she abandoned.
At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York
City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New
Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is
the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly
convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race.
Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity
and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her
dozen children through college--and most through graduate school.
At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple
University.
Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative,
McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a
mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and
violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional
success. "The Color of Water" touches readers of all colors as a
vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and
identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK CHOSEN BY
BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR, NEW
YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST 'Brilliantly imagined, larger than
life, a tragicomedic epic of intertwined lives.' JOYCE CAROL OATES
'Deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane.' JUNOT
DIAZ, New York Times Book Review The year is 1969. In a housing
project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called
Sportcoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer
who used to be part of the church's baseball team. The
repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community, from
Sportcoat's best friend - Hot Sausage - to the local Italian
mobsters, the police (corrupt and otherwise), and the stalwart
ladies of the Five Ends Baptist Church. DEACON KING KONG is a book
about a community under threat, about the ways people pull together
in an age when the old rules are being rewritten. It is very funny
in places, and heartbreaking in others. From a prize-winning
storyteller, this New York Times bestseller shows us that not all
secrets are meant to be hidden, and that the communities we build
are fragile but vital. ______________________ From the winner of a
National Book Award and author of the bestselling memoir,The Color
of Water, and The Good Lord Bird, a TV series starring Ethan Hawke
'A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of
the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the year's best
novels.' The Washington Post What Goodreads readers are saying:
***** 'Deacon King Kong is one of those novels whose brilliance
sneaks up on you. I haven't been this pleasantly surprised by a
book in a while.' ***** 'I do believe I just finished one of my all
time favorite books. I loved every minute spent with Sportcoat and
his community. A good old fashioned yarn shot through with truth,
spirit, and humor. I LOVED it!' ***** 'This book was a balm for my
soul, a portrait of a black church community circa 1969 with sweet
characters (well, most of them), interconnections that stretch back
decades, and a plot with more than one mystery at its heart.' *****
'"Deacon" has the texture of folk lore and fable mixed with the
unexpected rhythms of jazz and the noisy streets of late 1960s
Brooklyn.' ***** 'The ending was one of those where you clutch your
heart and want to hug the book (or your Kindle).'
James McBride’s powerful memoir, The Color of Water, was a groundbreaking literary phenomenon that transcended racial and religious boundaries, garnering unprecedented acclaim and topping bestseller lists for more than two years. Now McBride turns his extraordinary gift for storytelling to fiction—in a universal tale of courage and redemption inspired by a little-known historic event. In Miracle at St. Anna, toward the end of World War II, four Buffalo Soldiers from the Army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema—in the peasants who shelter them, in the unspoken affection of an orphaned child, in a newfound faith in fellow man. And even in the face of unspeakable tragedy, they—and we—learn to see the small miracles of life.
A memoir whose narrative features two voices: that of a black musician growing up in Brooklyn with his 11 brothers and 11 sisters; and his mother, daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox Jewish rabbi, who lives in a violently racist small southern town.
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One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017 "A pinball
machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and
naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best." --New York
Times Book Review Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the
first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord
Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published
before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history
converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable,
imaginative and authentic--all told with McBride's unrivaled
storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail.
McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people
around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy
commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the
home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves
thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president
draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And
members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories
from their own messy and hilarious lives. As McBride did in his
National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his bestselling
The Color of Water, he writes with humor and insight about how we
struggle to understand who we are in a world we don't fully
comprehend. The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative
collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our
human condition.
Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Shreiber and Jaden
Smith
A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book
of the Year
"A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James
McBride." -cover review of "The New York Times Book Review"
"Outrageously entertaining." -"USA Today"
"James McBride delivers another tour de force" -"Essence"
"So imaginative, you'll race to the finish." -NPR.org
"Wildly entertaining."--4-star "People" lead review
"A boisterous, highly entertaining, altogether original novel." -
"Washington Post"
From the bestselling author of "The Color of Water "and "Song Yet
Sung "comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John
Brown's antislavery crusade--and who must pass as a girl to
survive.
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory
in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and
pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist,
arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master
quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town--with Brown,
who believes he's a girl.
Over the ensuing months, Henry--whom Brown nicknames Little
Onion--conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive.
Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic
raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859--one of the great catalysts for the
Civil War.
An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with
McBride's meticulous eye for detail and character, "The Good Lord
Bird" is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of
identity and survival.
August 1914, Britain is aflame with war and patriotism. Men from
all over the country rush to enlist, volunteering to fight for King
and country. Most are young and innocent and cannot possibly
foresee the horrors that await them on the bloody battlegrounds of
the Western Front. How many of them will survive?Brothers Tom and
David Duke have spent most of their lives playing rugby together.
With the advent of war, however, they too choose to enlist, each
for his own reason: Tom has an insatiable lust for adventure, and
David simply cannot let his brother go to war without him. They
become soldiers, and together will face the untold horrors of the
First World War.Their innocence and boundless enthusiasm propel
them into the infamous Battle of the Somme in 1916. The following
year, they face the unspeakable horror of Passchendaelle, a name
that would become synonymous with the ineffable futility of the
Great War. What began as patriotic adventure becomes a fight for
survival. The brothers cannot escape the brutal reality of war
which has unforeseen and tragic consequences for them and the
people they love most.Based on the official war diaries of the
Eleventh Battalion, the London Regiment, this historical novel
tells a gripping story of the true tragedy of the Great War.
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Good Lord
Bird," winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.
James McBride's powerful memoir, "The Color of Water," was a
groundbreaking literary phenomenon that transcended racial and
religious boundaries, garnering unprecedented acclaim and topping
bestseller lists for more than two years. Now McBride turns his
extraordinary gift for storytelling to fiction--in a universal tale
of courage and redemption inspired by a little-known historic
event. In "Miracle at St. Anna," toward the end of World War II,
four Buffalo Soldiers from the Army's Negro 92nd Division find
themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines.
Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with
less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover
humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema--in
the peasants who shelter them, in the unspoken affection of an
orphaned child, in a newfound faith in fellow man. And even in the
face of unspeakable tragedy, they--and we--learn to see the small
miracles of life.
This acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture directed by
Spike Lee.
This consumable book provides daily support for classroom
instruction. It provides a long-term record of each student's
mathematical development.
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