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Fit To Be Lit Book Club Discussion

Date and Time
Date / Time
Sat, Oct 18, 2025
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location
Location
Hackensack's Johnson Free Public Library
274 Main Street
Gallery Space
Hackensack, NJ, 07601
Cost
Cost
Free Event
Category
Category
Literature/Poetry
Fit To Be Lit Book Club Discussion

Come join us for a fun and thoughtful discussion of today's best literary fiction!

This month's title is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride:

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 neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.

To register, please contact: melina@johnsonlib.org