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History and the American Dream in James McBride “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”

Cover illustration by David Cooper for The Washington Post When Nana Nkweit asked James McBride how much discovering his Jewish background impacted his latest novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, McBride said that he discovered himself becoming “much more sensitized to the events of World War II than ever before.” He stated that his mother had cousins who died in he Holocaust, and he mentioned that … Read More History and the American Dream in James McBride “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”