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‘I want people to get along’: James McBride on the Black-Jewish neighborhood in his new novel

Gabby Deutch in Jewish Insider

In James McBride's new novel, "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store," he creates a fictional neighborhood, Chicken Hill, where the Black and Jewish communities intersect in the 1920s to the 1970s.

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