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AND WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE 2023 KIRKUS FICTION PRIZE In 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 neighbourhood where Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side
through the 1920s and '30s. In this novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep
them James McBride shows us that even in dark times it is love and community - heaven and
earth - that sustain us.
