James McBride is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestsellers, The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird, which is currently being made into a television series starring Ethan Hawke. A former reporter for The Washington Post and People magazine, McBride holds a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. from Oberlin College. In 2015 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
Praise for The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store:
“I keep thinking every time I read one of his books, ‘That’s his
best book.’ No. THIS is his best book.” —Ann Patchett
“This is one of those novels that becomes a part of you. It’s a
great book. Every character is rich; every detail is rich. I can’t
recommend this one highly enough. He’s a great author and I think
this is his best work.” —Harlan Coben
“He writes about deep American wounds with love, rage, and a sense
of wit that flies like a falcon in large leaping circles, riding
the invisible winds of history.” —Ethan Hawke
“With this story, McBride brilliantly captures a rapidly changing
country, as seen through the eyes of the recently arrived and the
formerly enslaved . . . And through this evocation, McBride offers
us a thorough reminder: Against seemingly impossible odds, even in
the midst of humanity’s most wicked designs, love, community and
action can save us.” —The New York Times Book Review
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels I’ve
read this year. It pulls off the singular magic trick of being
simultaneously flattening and uplifting.” —NPR
“[A] tour de force . . . [a] mesmerizing, moving, almost magical
tale . . . [McBride] writes sentences and paragraphs that swing
like jazz melodies.” —The Associated Press
“Classic McBride: He doesn’t shy away from bold statements about
the national catastrophes of race and xenophobia, and he always
gives us a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. The
sugar is McBride’s spitfire dialogue and murder-mystery-worthy plot
machinations; his characters’ big personalities and bigger
storylines; his wisecracking, fast-talking humor; and prose so
agile and exuberant that reading him is like being at a jazz jam
session. . . . Reading McBride just feels good—we are comforted and
entertained, and braced for the hard lessons he also delivers.”
—The Atlantic
"Sharp and nimble and warm as a wool hat, James McBride’s prose
seems to transcend all earthly concerns, allowing him to write with
compassion, humor and authority." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A story of community, care, and the lengths to which we'll go for
justice, McBride's tale is a wondrous ode to the strength of
humanity in a small town.” —Time Magazine
“Enchanting . . . [a] rich, carefully drawn portrait of a
Depression-era community of African Americans and Jewish immigrants
as they live, love, fight, and, of course, work.” —The Boston
Globe
“McBride . . . would never advance any of his books as candidates
for the Great American Novel. . . . I’d like to make a case,
though, for Deacon King Kong and, now, The Heaven & Earth Grocery
Store as better contenders for the 21st-century GAN than many
other, more vaunted specimens. . . . In the words of Walt Whitman
(an American writer McBride often brings to mind), they contain
multitudes.” —Slate
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