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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
The main portion of this story is set in the 1920s and 30s in Pennsylvania. It's the saga of the lives, struggles, successes and failures of Jewish people and black families in a community.
There are a lot of characters and much time is devoted to the back stories of all of these individuals. And while it is a worthwhile story, at times it felt tedious.
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"Americans cared about money. And power. And government. Jews had none of those things; their job was to tread lightly in the land of milk and honey and be thankful that they were free to walk the land without getting their duffs kicked, or worse."
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"...a future in which devices that fit in one's pocket and went zip, zap, and zilch delivered a danger far more seductive and powerful than any hot dog, a device that children of the future would clamor for and become addicted to, a device that fed them their oppression disguised as free thought."
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"The difference was that the white man in the South spoke his hatred in clear, clean, concise terms, whereas the white man in the new country hid his hatred behind stories of wisdom and bravado, with false smiles of sincerity and stories of Jesus Christ..."
There are a lot of characters and much time is devoted to the back stories of all of these individuals. And while it is a worthwhile story, at times it felt tedious.
.
"Americans cared about money. And power. And government. Jews had none of those things; their job was to tread lightly in the land of milk and honey and be thankful that they were free to walk the land without getting their duffs kicked, or worse."
.
"...a future in which devices that fit in one's pocket and went zip, zap, and zilch delivered a danger far more seductive and powerful than any hot dog, a device that children of the future would clamor for and become addicted to, a device that fed them their oppression disguised as free thought."
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"The difference was that the white man in the South spoke his hatred in clear, clean, concise terms, whereas the white man in the new country hid his hatred behind stories of wisdom and bravado, with false smiles of sincerity and stories of Jesus Christ..."