NMLP P-013775 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride · Riverhead Books · 2023

The US Riverhead hardcover of 2023 is the true first. The novel won the 2023 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and was named Barnes & Noble's 2023 Book of the Year. (It was a finalist in the awards season but did not win the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, which went to Lorrie Moore for that year.)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013775 for "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013775, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).