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    A bountiful year in books: The best reads of 2023

    by Staff Dec 13, 2023 5 minutes

    Fiction

    The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride

    Chona Ludlow runs the local grocery in the Black and Jewish neighborhood of Chicken Hill with a fearless heart. When an attack at the store leads to an orphaned boy’s arrest, community members rally. This triumph from James McBride stresses the challenges of accessing America’s promises.

    Stealing, by Margaret Verble

    “I love my family, and I’m going to get to them as soon as I can,” promises Kit, a girl whose close ties to her mother’s Cherokee family are cut when she is dispatched to an abusive Christian boarding school in the 1950s. Kit chronicles the events leading to her removal from family, home, and community. Frank and fearless, the novel is a portrait of perseverance. 

    Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton

    In New Zealand, guerrilla

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