McBride's storyline then bends backwards to 1925, when a Jewish theater manager named Moshe Ludlow and his wife, Chona, are living above the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store which she runs.

The National Book Award-winning author James McBride has a new novel out, "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store." Like much of McBride’s work, it’s rooted in race, religion and personal history ...

James “Jim” R. McBride, 68, passed away December 29, 2022 at McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital. He was born April 21, 1954 to James Ray McBride and Norine Coon McBride.

In his latest novel, James McBride defuses the ‘dynamite’ of Black-Jewish relations In “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” neighbors make common cause against bigots of all types.

POTTSTOWN — James McBride did not at first plan to set his novel “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” on Pottstown’s “Chicken Hill.” It was supposed to be down-county … ...

In McBride’s sprawling and deeply moving new book, “ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” he brings back his grandmother in the character of Chona, a disabled Polish immigrant whose husband ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author James McBride about his new book The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store.

POTTSTOWN — James McBride did not at first plan to set his novel “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” on Pottstown’s “Chicken Hill.” It was supposed to be down-county in Worcester ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Jesmyn Ward and James McBride and story collections by Jamal Brinkley and Kelly Link are among the finalists Wednesday for the 10th annual Kirkus Prizes, for which ...

The novel is dedicated to Sy Friend, the retired director of a camp for disabled children in Pennsylvania, where McBride was a counselor in college.