

The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride’s funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird.

38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range.

In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a. From the author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Birdand the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.
