This month's selection is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. The Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held in Logan Auditorium, 12-1 PM on Wednesday, February 12th. The group meets on the second Wednesday of the month. Registration required. Visitors and new members are always welcome!
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing development, the last thing they expected to uncover was a human skeleton. Who the skeleton was and how it got buried there were just two of the long-held secrets that had been kept for decades by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side, sharing ambitions and sorrows.
National Jewish Book Award for Book Club Award (2023), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2024), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2023), NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2024), Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award (2023), Libby Award for Best Adult Fiction (2023)
Copies of the print edition in regular and large print will be available at the library's Circulation Desk one month ahead of the meeting and audiobook copies can be found in the Libby app.
Please email Christina at [email protected] if you are having trouble borrowing a copy of the book.