The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store havdalah A New York Times 100

A New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Readers Pick

its corridors endless

and rose clay

Pray it isn’t attained

With the Mazik kingdoms in political turmoil

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store havdalah A New York Times 100In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and