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23 wrz 2023 · When author James McBride was 19, he stumbled upon a newspaper advertisement seeking a dish washer at a sleepaway camp for children with disabilities. He needed a job, so he applied.
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 ...
20 lis 2023 · While the novel is (I hope) involving and funny, the inspiration for it originated in a place of hope and humanity: The Variety Club Camp for Handicapped Children in Worcester, Pa., where I worked for four summers in the 1970s. It was run by an extraordinary man named Sy Friend.
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" — all...
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.
14 sie 2023 · In the Acknowledgements at the end of his new novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride cites as his inspiration a camp outside Philadelphia where he worked every summer as a college...
