Take a photo of a barcode or cover
elli143 's review for:
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
This book was an absolute slog to get through. Maybe it was that I didn’t really know most of the Jewish and/or black cultural references, maybe it was the rambling nature of the storyteller. There was a backstory on everyone and all of their relatives, and so much of it was irrelevant to the story at hand.
It was well written, just not at all my style. Too much backstory and not enough forward momentum of the plot. The story finally did pick up near the end, but the only reason I didn’t abandon it outright was because it ended up on the NYT best books of the century. Otherwise I would have walked away after 150 pages when the story still hadn’t progressed in any meaningful way.
It was well written, just not at all my style. Too much backstory and not enough forward momentum of the plot. The story finally did pick up near the end, but the only reason I didn’t abandon it outright was because it ended up on the NYT best books of the century. Otherwise I would have walked away after 150 pages when the story still hadn’t progressed in any meaningful way.