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Front Matter and Part I: Gone, Chapters 1 through 5

· The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: McBride, James. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Riverhead Books, 2023.

· Following the combined dedication and epigraph, as well as the table of contents, Part I: Gone begins with Chapter 1, The Hurricane.

· State troopers confront Malachi about the evidence of a dead body found during recent real estate development projects.

· Malachi answers the troopers’ questions cryptically, giving them pause about their actions.

· Further law enforcement action is forestalled by the occurrence of a massive storm and flood that local custom held addressed injustices and which certainly destroyed any evidence of wrongdoing.

· Notably, Malachi escapes unnoticed, vanishing as if into thin air.

· Chapter 2, A Bad Sign, begins to relate the circumstances surrounding the vision of Moshe Ludlow.

· Moshe’s stagings of musical events are related, his audiences described along with...

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