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A review by jess_esa
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
slow-paced
3.75
Weaving such a tight story with so many rich characters is no easy feat. Chona and Dodo were real stand-outs, and I’m genuinely going to miss them!
This book is about kindness and community, often where you least expect it, and you truly feel the love between these people. I feel like it makes this point incessantly, though, often disrupting the narrative to make it when the author has successfully conveyed that caring for one another is the only way forward right from the start.
I’m very glad I read this, and I learned a lot about early immigrant communities in the US, but the second half didn’t quite match the intrigue of the first half for me, so I was itching to reach the end after a point.
This book is about kindness and community, often where you least expect it, and you truly feel the love between these people. I feel like it makes this point incessantly, though, often disrupting the narrative to make it when the author has successfully conveyed that caring for one another is the only way forward right from the start.
I’m very glad I read this, and I learned a lot about early immigrant communities in the US, but the second half didn’t quite match the intrigue of the first half for me, so I was itching to reach the end after a point.