

Thu, Oct 19
|Temple Kol Tikvah
Beverly's Book Nook - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
October's book of the month
Time & Location
Oct 19, 2023, 1:30 PM – Oct 20, 2023, 1:30 PM
Temple Kol Tikvah, 605 South St, Davidson, NC 28036, USA
About the event
The book is a murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel. The story opens in 1972, with the discovery of a skeleton buried in a well in Pottstown, Pa. The identity of the corpse is unknown but the few clues found (a belt buckle, a pendant and a mezuza) lead authorities to question the only Jewish man remaining from the town’s formerly vibrant Jewish community. However, instead of a simple whodunit, the novel leaves the bones behind and swings back to the 1920s and ’30s, to Chicken Hill, the neighborhood in Pottstown where Jewish, Black and immigrant folks make their homes. It’s a community of people bonded together by the links of love and duty, and it’s here that McBride’s epic tale truly begins.