The million-copy bestseller: a literary murder-mystery about communities standing together against power and oppression ´I loved this book´ BONNIE GARMUS ´A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community´ LOUISE KENNEDY ´I can´t recommend this one highly enough ´ HARLAN COBEN ´THIS is his best book´ ANN PATCHETT THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA´S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK AMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR BOOK OF THE YEAR IN: THE GUARDIAN, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES, TIME MAGAZINE, HARPER´S BAZAAR, OPRAH DAILY AND WASHINGTON POST In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side through the 1920s and ´30s. In this novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them, James McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us.