A review by mkduds
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

5.0

Audiobook review. This book had me hooked in the first two minutes: “I bang my head against it [Hebrew] sometimes.” You can tell this author knows Jews - the life he paints of them in this book and how they are in community with others connected me to this book so deeply. I loved this story of family and friends and the people that keep you going, and about home and safety and connection. It is a story about race in America but also assimilation and class and disability but it also just a story of humans. When I finished the book, I immediately had to hear the first few chapters again - what a start and what an end!

The narration is phenomenal - one of the best. For the first few chapters, I assumed a Jew was reading. 

Mazel tov to you, McBride. This is a triumph.