02133cam a2200337 4500 482276504 TxAuBib 20210209120000.0 191007s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2019045146 9780735216723 073521672X (OCoLC)1122690620 TxAuBib McBride, James. Deacon King Kong / James McBride. 1st Edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2020. 370 p ; 24 cm. From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. 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. 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. 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. 20210209. Murder Fiction. Drug dealers Crimes against Fiction. Deacons Fiction. Deacons Baptists Fiction. Neighborhoods Fiction. Public housing Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Historical fiction. TXGID