Included in: Obama's 2023 Favorites
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"His #1 fiction pick of 2023; cited in dozens of editorial news reports."
View Primary Source"McBride's best yet; a story about the goodness of community."
— Barack Obama,
Literary Fiction2023
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
A story about the goodness of community, set in a fictional 1930s Pennsylvania town where Black and Jewish residents build an unlikely world together.
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