Join the June 5th Book Club!

All are invited to join the Windham Library Book Club on Wednesday, June 5 at 3:30PM.

Book Description:
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.

As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear
how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian
America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened
on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark
times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.