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meganpbell 's review for:
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
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
While there’s much to love about this book—its strong sense of place, its vast, lovable, diverse, and very human cast of characters, and its central message about community amid difference—religion, race, ability, class—I found it too structurally scattered to enjoy uninterruptedly and the author’s descriptions of women’s bodies (the number of times boobs and angelic singing occur smh) distracting to put it lightly.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism
Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Infertility, Medical content, Death of parent