MCJC Book Club Selects a Top Pick
If you want to request a copy of the next book up for discussion by the MCJC Book Club from your local library, best do it quickly. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride is topping many ‘best book of the year’ and awards lists which is making it a popular request at libraries, according to MCJC’s book club facilitator, Rachel Kamin. director of Lifelong Learning at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El. The group will discuss the book on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 pm on Zoom.
MCJC’s Book Club meets approximately every other month to discuss Jewish-themed literature and is open to all.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is, according to the New York Times, “A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel…charming, smart, heart-blistering and heart healing.” According to the book’s description, when a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town’s white establishment played in it.