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These shifts in landscape also included attempts to maintain exclusive white ownership and control of spaces for food provisioning like the grocery store. In 1889, People’s Grocery was the first ...
Near the end of James McBride’s new novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, a character named Miggy makes a proclamation about what truly ails the folks living in the asylum where she works ...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride (Riverhead). This wily, gleefully clamorous novel opens in 1972, with the discovery of a skeleton in a well in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, but it ...