The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel

I found this book boring, too verbose and way too many story tangents.

Heartwarming and riveting story of the Chicken Hill neighborhood, where Jewish and African-American neighbors navigate their relationships with each other and band together to survive the prejudice of their town’s powerful White citizens. The characters are all unique and memorable with fascinating personalities. The plot had me hooked from beginning to end. Contains descriptions of sexual assault of a woman and a child, racial and religious prejudice, and a historically-accurate asylum for mentally ill and disabled patients who are neglected by the staff, so it’s not meant for young children. Older teens may enjoy the book with parental guidance.

Such a good book. The narrorator of the audiobook was really great, but somehow I didn't catch the humor in parts of the book until the very end.

I felt like there were way too many characters and back stories. In the end they connected but took a long winding way to get there and I lost interest alive the way

Beautiful story - particularly poignant now.