01377cam a2200277 4500 503788328 TxAuBib 20200312120000.0 191007s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780735216723 073521672X TxAuBib McBride, James, 1957- Deacon King Kong : a novel / James McBride. New York : Riverhead Books, 2020. 370 pages. Oprah's Book Club 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,. 20200312. Deacons Fiction. Drug dealers Fiction. Murder Fiction. Historical fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Oprah's Book Club.