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So Far Gone

SO FAR GONE rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐. I love the concept of SO FAR GONE by Jess Walter (HarperCollins, June 10, 2025). In 2016, former writer and journalist Rhys Kinnick pitches his smartphone out of his car window, drives to 40 acres in Northwest Washington State (where his grandfather left a cinderblock dwelling now inhabited […]

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In the image, a Black male figure wearing a blue hat and white shirt carries a round red object (possibly a water jar). Text says "THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY SHORE a novel NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES MCBRIDE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Review / By Jill Minor

THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE rating: five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. The setting for THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride (Penguin Random House, August 8, 2023) is the outskirts of a Pennsylvania steel town in the 1930s—a place called Chicken Hill. It is home to a mix of Jewish, Black, and Italian households.

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