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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.
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James McBride (Nueva York, 1957) es saxofonista, guionista y novelista. Estudió periodismo en la Universidad de Columbia y ha colaborado con The Boston Globe, The Washington Post y People, entre otras publicaciones. Dos de sus novelas han sido llevadas al cine por Spike Lee. En 2013 recibió el National Book Award por su novela El pájaro carpintero y, en 2016, el presidente Barack Obama le concedió la prestigiosa National Humanities Medal.