From James McBride Comes One Of The Most Celebrated Novels Of The Year
Oprah's Book Club Pick - A New York Times Bestseller - One of The New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year - A Washington Post Notable Novel - One of TIME Magazine's Ten Best Novels of the Year
From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.
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 .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range.
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, movi...