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5 wrz 2023 · The novel is dedicated to Sy Friend, an appropriately named man who was the longtime director of what’s now known as Variety Club Camp, a nonprofit that helps children with disabilities.
10 sie 2023 · POTTSTOWN — James McBride did not at first plan to set his novel “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” on Pottstown’s “Chicken Hill.” It was supposed to be down-county in Worcester ...
23 wrz 2023 · “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” was inspired by the four summers McBride spent working at the Variety Club Camp for Handicapped Children.
14 sie 2023 · At the time, it was called The Variety Club Camp for Handicapped Children. The remarkable camp director, McBride says, taught him lifetime lessons about "inclusivity, love and acceptance"...
10 lis 2023 · In his “Acknowledgments” at the end of the novel, McBride pays tribute to Sy Friend, the retired Jewish “director of The Variety Club Camp for Handicapped Children in Worcester, Pa.” The author tells us, “I worked at the camp for four summers when I was a student at Oberlin College. . . .
14 sie 2023 · At the time, it was called The Variety Club Camp for Handicapped Children. The remarkable camp director, McBride says, taught him lifetime lessons about "inclusivity, love and acceptance"...
2 paź 2023 · Let's start at the end of the book and the afterward. You write this book began as an ode to Sy Friend, the retired director of the Variety Club Camp for Handicapped Children in Worcester, Pennsylvania. You worked there a few summers at that camp.
