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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.
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.
But for McBride? Well, he was familiar with it while working at the Variety Club Camp for Handicapped Children in Worcester, PA for four summers during his youth. The ground owned by the camp was originally donated by a theater owner, someone much like Moshe who owned his own theater in the book.
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. . . .
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.
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.
