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Violence
Some
Violence; a murder; historical racial violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of community, solidarity between marginalized groups, and the value of the forgotten
What this book is about
McBride's 2023 novel begins with a skeleton discovered in a well in Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, and weaves backward through the lives of the Jewish and Black residents of this forgotten neighborhood in the 1930s. Funny, moving, and richly human. For older teens and adults.
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