The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The initial description I saw of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is that it is a murder mystery - a genre that done well has me speed-reading to get to the solution - but in this case, the characters, their lives, and their relationships to each other were so rich and drew me in so much, I forgot that I was waiting to identify a body (though the payoff was worthy of a Coen brothers film). 

This was often not an easy read, with racial tension and bigotry (including narration from the point of view of a white supremacist), grief, sexual assault (including that of a child), but there was also love, humor, and strength. 

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