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This alone may qualify it as one of the year’s best novels.’ The Washington Post ‘Deacon King Kong is deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane McBride’s ability to inhabit his characters’ foibled, all-too-human interiority helps transform a fine book into a great one’ The New York Times Book Review THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.
The repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community, from Sportscoat’s best friend – Hot Sausage – to the local Italian mobsters, the police (corrupt and otherwise), and the stalwart ladies of the Five Ends Baptist Church.ĭEACON KING KONG is a book about a community under threat, about the ways people pull together in an age when the old rules are being rewritten.
In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots – for no apparent reason – the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church’s baseball team.
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