#12 The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing development, the last thing they expected to uncover was a human skeleton. Who the skeleton was and how it got buried there were just two of the long-held secrets that had been kept for decades by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side, sharing ambitions and sorrows.
The book is actually about more than that but I didn't want to provide a lengthy quote. The writer submerges the reader into the lives of Jewish and African American people who lived in the Chicken Hill neighborhood. While, frankly, I forgot about the mystery and the plot meanders, it's an interesting study of people and community.
#13 This Summer will be Different by Carley Fortune Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again.
It’s easier said than done.
Nice escape for reading on a plane. Otherwise, this writer has no idea how people really work.
