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A review by mo_mentan
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
5.0
CN for sexual assault (including of children!)
oh how i loved this book!! even more than deacon king kong. the way james mcbride lets characters and communities come to live is incredible. i noticed just now that he rearly really describes the physical surroundings, but you absolutely grasp them thrpugh the way he portrays the people that popoulate them.
i am so glad this had somewhat of a "happy" ending, and this time round i didn't want it to be neatly tied up, i didn't need to know if paper and fatty eventually get married, how moshe will get on, because if there is one thing mcbride reinstalls in us readers it's the trust in peoples ability to live, to be kind, to help each other out and get on. there is humanity everywhere, community and love everywhere.
but i needed to know that nate would see adi again, my heart was still broken for monkey pants but it was healed in those last few words. and oh chona, i sure hope to be just a fraction the person she was one day.
i learned so much, especially about jewish immigrants to the us (i somehow always assumed that they all emigrated only because of the nazis and the shoah, even though i should have known better having read that one short story in russian class, i've forgotten the title).
i will devour everything james mcbride has ever written and will ever write from now on. and have i mentioned that incredible audiobook yet?
oh how i loved this book!! even more than deacon king kong. the way james mcbride lets characters and communities come to live is incredible. i noticed just now that he rearly really describes the physical surroundings, but you absolutely grasp them thrpugh the way he portrays the people that popoulate them.
i am so glad this had somewhat of a "happy" ending, and this time round i didn't want it to be neatly tied up, i didn't need to know if paper and fatty eventually get married, how moshe will get on, because if there is one thing mcbride reinstalls in us readers it's the trust in peoples ability to live, to be kind, to help each other out and get on. there is humanity everywhere, community and love everywhere.
but i needed to know that nate would see adi again, my heart was still broken for monkey pants but it was healed in those last few words. and oh chona, i sure hope to be just a fraction the person she was one day.
i learned so much, especially about jewish immigrants to the us (i somehow always assumed that they all emigrated only because of the nazis and the shoah, even though i should have known better having read that one short story in russian class, i've forgotten the title).
i will devour everything james mcbride has ever written and will ever write from now on. and have i mentioned that incredible audiobook yet?