“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” was inspired by the four summers McBride spent working at the Variety Club Camp for Handicapped Children.
,” your Jewish grandmother — whom you never met — had a disability and worked in her family’s grocery store. How did you reimagine your grandmother as Chona in this book? What compelled you to do that?My grandmother wasn’t in a marriage where there was love, so I put her on the page and made her loved. I garnered my grandmother’s story through my mother and through many of the old Black and Jewish people who lived in Suffolk, Va., who remembered her.
I didn’t know anything about differently abled children, I just wanted the job. When I first started, I didn’t think I could do it. The only chapter that really worked among the many chapters I’d written was the chapter about the person who donated the land for the camp and that was Moshe. I discarded the chapters about the camp and just pushed right in at Moshe.As soon as Chona arrived, I knew that I had some magic, and I just followed that. You can’t fall in love with your words, you have to fall in love with the ideas.
Other than the physical challenges, they were just like any other children. Some were difficult and some were easy, but they all had a lot of love to give, and they had ways of showing their disapproval of things. They have an ability to mark your humanity in their mind in a way that you do not expect, and they have an ability to check you in ways that make you feel you better do better.You mentioned the many lifelong lessons you learned at camp.
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