The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Kirkus Prize (Fiction)Fiction | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
In a 1920s Pennsylvania town, the discovery of a skeleton in a well unlocks the history of a mixed community of Jewish and Black residents. A joyful, humane novel about community and survival. Winner of the 2023 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and a number one New York Times bestseller.
About the Author
James McBride is an American author, musician, and journalist. Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 1957, to a Black father and a white Jewish mother, he studied journalism at Oberlin College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of the celebrated memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996), which spent over two years on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than two million copies. Read more →
