# The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride (2023)

**Verdict:** Glad I read it — No regrets, no evangelism. The biggest shelf, and that's fine.

**Who I'd hand it to:** People looking for a good read

_print · finished 2024-01-15_

## Fingerprint

Positions between two named poles. Neither pole is the good end.

- Place: toward "the place is the book"
- Moral weight: toward "pressing a case"
- Cleverness: between "the form does the work" and "told straight"
- Lift: between "left me heavier" and "left me lighter"
- Friction: far toward "reads itself"

_Scored from memory, some time after reading._

## How it read

How much I wanted to keep reading, at each stage.

- Beginning: eager
- Middle: couldn’t stop
- End: eager

## Review

Historic rural America living live together running into each other's ugly parts and figuring out how to make it work.

Tags: poverty, rural, small town

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