Matthew Becklo discusses his new book and its themes, from polarization and the present spiritual crisis to 'heaven-earth ...

At first, I found the book’s baton-passing quality jarring. The same was true of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. Who should claim my sympathies?

Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as ...

At that time Jesus declared, 'I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise ...

When 17-year-old Sebastian Barnack, adolescent poet-hero of Aldous Huxley's new novel, arrived in Florence, Italy, he found life in the British colony revolving in oldtime Huxleyan fashion: ...

National Book Award winner James McBride ("Deacon King Kong") is back with a new must-read novel this week.

As "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" opens in 1972, state troopers discover a skeleton at the bottom of a well in the Chicken Hill neighborhood in Pottstown, Pa.

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath.

The National Book Award-winning author James McBride has a new novel out, "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store." Like much of McBride’s work, it’s rooted in race, religion and personal history ...

We didn’t know how to look to heaven without looking past earth. So we gave up both—and lost sight of how, in the Christian theological imagination, the two go together.

Here's everything to know about the real-life inspiration behind the movie — and where Annabel Beam is today. Warning: Miracles from Heaven spoilers ahead!

The “Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” is a neighborhood fixture and keystone, connecting the lives and fates of immigrant Jewish and African American neighbors in a small town in Pennsylvania.