December Book Club Meetup

Join us for our December Book Club Meetup! We'll gather at The Wine Pub in Shelter Island Village to discuss The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.

McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.

The novel is a unique blend of literary fiction, historical fiction, and mystery with a tale that weaves around a Jewish couple’s struggle and the Black community who unite to help them.

James McBride is an award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter. His best-selling memoir, “The Color of Water,” published in 1996, is a homage to his Jewish mother. His 2013 novel, “The Good Lord Bird,” about American abolitionist John Brown, won the National Book Award for Fiction and was made into a Showtime series. McBride has been a staff writer for The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and The Washington Post, and his work has…