04564cam a2200673 4500 2722023242 TxAuBib 20260403120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780735216747 0735216746 B07TG6YSNQ Amazon e71f9874-2c0f-4c8a-8c4c-33e2808e3d45 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4815724 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McBride, James, 1957- Deacon King Kong [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. historical fiction best sellers. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. national book award winners. African American fiction. historical fiction books. african american books. books by black authors. best books of all time. oprah book club list. james mcbride books. Historical Fiction. books best sellers. the good lord bird. The Color of Water. oprah's book club. literary fiction. oprah book club. gifts for women. book club books. king kong book. black authors. gifts for men. james mcbride. best sellers. bestseller. Best books. King Kong. brooklyn. novel. HTML:Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction   Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year" Oprah's Book Club Pick New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, 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, 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. 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. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us. . African American Fiction. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Notable Books for Adults. 10 Best Books of 2020. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-04-01 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e71f9874-2c0f-4c8a-8c4c-33e2808e3d45&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e71f9874-2c0f-4c8a-8c4c-33e2808e3d45&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)