I too have recently read "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" and I'm a little surprised by your reaction, because I found it both gut wrenching and funny. The scenes in the so called hospital I still can't bear to think about; some of the dialogue still makes me giggle. And I have been rereading Baldwin (I didn't know I was supposed to), both is fiction and nonfiction. "Another Country is among other things a love letter to New York, and it's a roman a clef. Painter Beauford Delaney is clearly one of the characters. I recommend Baldwin's last novel, "Just Above My Head," strongly. Thanks for this interesting post, bookworm, I'd like to read "Twenty Acres", world enough and time.
I am finishing up Prophet Song by Paul Lynch and Killers of the Flower Moon is next.
I too have recently read "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" and I'm a little surprised by your reaction, because I found it both gut wrenching and funny. The scenes in the so called hospital I still can't bear to think about; some of the dialogue still makes me giggle. And I have been rereading Baldwin (I didn't know I was supposed to), both is fiction and nonfiction. "Another Country is among other things a love letter to New York, and it's a roman a clef. Painter Beauford Delaney is clearly one of the characters. I recommend Baldwin's last novel, "Just Above My Head," strongly. Thanks for this interesting post, bookworm, I'd like to read "Twenty Acres", world enough and time.