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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

144 reviews

amybartoli29's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Violence and Alcohol

Minor: Pedophilia, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

ewillreadit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Racism, Slavery, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Rape

burnourhistory's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

spacebeyonce's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

thank you monkey pants 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse and Pedophilia

littleredd's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

kamrynharned's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book initially drew me in because of its name.  I broke my sacred “No buying until you’ve read it” rule and impulsively bought this for my mom while we were in Alexandria.  Of course I had to read it, and I’m glad I did.  While it struck a bad nerve once or twice and went on a preaching rampage (one of my biggest pet peeves), the characters in this book truly came alive for me.  I feel endeared to all of them, but I do believe Chona & Monkey Pants will stay with me forever.  It was truly masterful how James McBride wove together the intricate and complex community that was Chicken Hill - including politics, religion, personality and profession. I thought it was brilliant how the author started with the mystery that is wrapped up in the end, but the character development, background setting and community building was all so engaging I honestly forgot about the mystery for most of the book. If being nit-picky, I do wish that the author hadn’t waited so long to get to the main climax and had gone into more detail about

the rescue of Dodo

While we are still left wondering about Moshe and Paper, the ending was truly lovely. To love and to be loved. That is the goal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

aggie2010's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

clarkg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

"The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" is a beautiful, lyrical tale of community and solidarity. McBride has created a rich world full of brilliant, dynamic characters whose fates entwine in surprising places. I appreciated many things about this book--the language, the care given to crafting the story's Black and Jewish communities, the breadth and depth of disability representation (though not without flaw), and its callbacks to a larger conversation about the possibilities and limits of justice on stolen land. If I had to describe "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" in a single word, it would be "abundant".

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Slavery, and Alcohol

taytastic's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A beautifully written book. It made me smile, it made me sad. It’s everything that people have promised you it would be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, and Grief

coleeflower's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Rape