Book Talk – The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:30 Tuesday 25 March
Program on premises only
Our Book Talk group meets once a month. A list of questions is provided in advance to facilitate discussion.
Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
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.
Please register at the Box Office 09-8330950, purchase tickets below or pay at the door.
Members: NIS 25
Non-members: NIS 50
