‘Deacon King Kong’ is an incredibly funny novel, with sharp comedic language and precise timing that never lets up.
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Riverhead
9780735216723
‘Deacon King Kong’ is an incredibly funny novel, with sharp comedic language and precise timing that never lets up.
In Deacon King Kong, the venerable James McBride’s first novel since winning the National Book Award in 2013 for The Good Lord Bird, a grief-stricken church deacon nicknamed Sportcoat shoots Deems, a 19-year-old drug dealer, at a Brooklyn-area housing project called the Cause Houses in 1969.
The shooting shocks the community of the Causes Houses…
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