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BookTalk with Harriet Sobol: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023) by James McBride

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CourseGraphic BookTalk introduces readers to a carefully chosen, provocative selection of novels for reading and informal discussion, considering the author’s writing techniques and the character’s personal journeys. This class focuses on The Heaven & Earth Grocery Story (2023) by James McBride. From the author of The Color or Water, The Good Lord Bird, and Deacon King Kong is a new story about Chicken Hill, a Pennsylvanian neighborhood of Blacks and immigrant Jews struggling for a good life in an overwhelmingly white, Christian country. Members of the town unite to protect a deaf boy from state institutionalization in a gripping tale that celebrates the power of community.

Class Details

1 Session(s)
Weekly - Wed

Location
Zoom

Instructor
Harriet Sobol 

 

Notice

Please read:  A Zoom link will be sent the day before the class. The discussion will be recorded and sent to enrolled students for up to one week.

Tuition: 

$30.00


Schedule Information

Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
12/13/2023 - 12/13/2023 Weekly - Wed 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM N/A - Online Harriet Sobol