Nicole recommends "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store"

This CMPL Book of the Month follows black and Jewish residents of Chicken Hill as they help each other survive in the decades before WWII. Their lives and struggles overlap as McBride reveals more and more about each character, until their lots are thrown together fully by an attack from the white establishment that leaves a Jewish woman dead and a black boy in danger.

James McBride is becoming one of my favorite authors. I love the way each chapter is a self-contained story and how the plot just sort of reveals itself by stacking stories on top of one another. The way that you almost forget about the body that's discovered in the well in the beginning of the book, until it comes back around at the end. This book is fantastic.