History Book Festival to feature James McBride’s latest novel Oct. 1
James McBride’s latest novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” is among 23 of the latest releases of historical fiction and nonfiction that will be on display at the 2023 History Book Festival, set for Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29 and 30, and Sunday, Oct. 1, in Lewes.
McBride’s novel explores the saga of a small town in Pennsylvania where Eastern European Jews and Black Americans lived and worked together to prosper and fight against discrimination as much as they could.
As the festival’s closing speaker, McBride will present his address at 1 p.m., Oct. 1, in the Cape Henlopen High School theater.
Tickets are required for this event and can be purchased at bit.ly/TKTS-MCBRIDE. Each reservation includes one general admission seat and a signed, hardback copy of “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.”
The closing address is funded through the support of Dogfish Head Beer & Benevolence, and the event is presented in partnership with Seaside Jewish Community and the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice.
Other attending authors and their books include Joseph Sassoon with “The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire,” a saga of the making and undoing of a great family dynasty; Jeff Shaara’s “The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt,” detailing the upbringing and political rise of the man who defined and created the modern United States; and Mary Kay Zuravleff’s “American Ending,” the story of a woman growing up in a family of Russian immigrants in the 1910s. These authors and more will be featured Sept. 30 during a full day of free presentations, thanks to the support of the festival’s funding partners, the Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/PenFed Realty and Delaware Humanities.
For more information on all presenting authors and their featured books, go to historybookfestival.org.
Books can be purchased after each presentation, when authors will be available to sign them, or they may be bought in advance at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, the official bookseller of the History Book Festival, or at Biblion in Lewes. All festival titles may also be borrowed from the Delaware Public Library system as the books are published.
