Deacon King Kong : a novel / James McBride.

McBride, James, 1957- author.

Book

New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.

370 pages ; 24 cm

"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 .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. . . . In Deacon King Kong, James 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. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways"-- Provided by publisher.

Deacons -- Baptists -- Fiction.

Drug dealers -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Community life -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Neighborhoods -- Fiction.

Public housing -- Fiction.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Thurber Prize for American Humor, winner, 2021.

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