Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Book Club: 'The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride is a critically acclaimed historical novel set in a vibrant, multi-ethnic Pennsylvania neighborhood in the mid-twentieth century.
Discussed“but Shona is the boss of the Heaven and Earth grocery store which is of course how we get our title”
Where to get it
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The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride is a historical novel that won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2014.
Discussed“so you might know James McBride who's the author he won the national book award for the good Lord bird which has been turned into a really great miniseries”
Where to get it
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The color of water
The Color of Water by James McBride is a celebrated memoir about growing up in Red Hook as one of twelve children born to a Black father and a white mother who grew up Jewish, converted, and started a church.
Discussed“I love his Memoir called the color of water which is about growing up in Red Hook as one of 12 born to a black father a white mother who grew up Jewish and converted and literally started a church with her first husband a wild story”
Where to get it
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“I took a class in college that I think was an entire semester where we only read ulses and I I remember maybe three scenes from it but I absorbed it and that's this book is not as complicated and inaccessible as ulyses can be but you take what you need from it”
Where to get it
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Happy all the time
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin is a witty and charming 1978 novel that explores the complexities of urban romance, marriage, and friendship among a circle of New Yorkers.
Recommended“I'm going to recommend happy all the time which is you got to read it MJ I haven't read it oh my God I know Liz you like her too and especially home cooking even though I don't cook”
Where to get it
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Home cooking
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin is a beloved collection of essays and culinary reflections by a celebrated novelist who found deep meaning in the kitchen and the act of feeding others.
Recommended“and especially home cooking even though I don't cook that is an endorsement”
Where to get it
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The Vulnerables
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez is a contemporary novel that follows an unnamed narrator during times of uncertainty, exploring themes of connection, isolation, and empathy.
Recommended“but it's the vulnerables by sigd Nunes oh interesting”
Where to get it
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Tom Lake
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett is a poignant novel that explores family dynamics and personal history during the first year of the pandemic as an adult family gathers on a Michigan cherry orchard.
Recommended“which brings me to my book which is Tom Lake by Anne patchet which is a pandemic novel”
Where to get it
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery is a critically acclaimed French philosophical novel that follows the secret inner lives of an intellectual Parisian concierge and a precocious, disillusioned young girl.
Recommended“she reminded me of the Elegance of the Hedgehog which is French cannon at this point I don't know”
Where to get it
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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese is an expansive, multigenerational epic novel set in Kerala, India, following a family afflicted by a peculiar affliction where at least one person in every generation dies by drowning.
Recommended“one is the Covenant of Water by Abraham vazi”
Where to get it
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Day
Day by Michael Cunningham is a poignant novel that unfolds across three successive Aprils—2019, 2020, and 2021—capturing the profound shifts in a family's life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recommended“and the third one is another pandemic novel and it's called Day by Michael Cunningham”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“that was MJ Franklin Elizabeth Egan and jum ctib talking about James McBride's the Heaven and Earth grocery store”
“that was MJ Franklin Elizabeth Egan and jum ctib talking about James McBride's the Heaven and Earth grocery store”