TY  - BOOK
AU  - McBride,James
TI  - Deacon King Kong
SN  - 9780735216723
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Drug dealers
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Neighbourhoods
KW  - Public housing
KW  - Deacons
KW  - Nineteen sixties
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
N2  - 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", 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. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion
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