Deacon King Kong
Doubleday
From the winner of a National Book Award and author of the bestselling memoir The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird a TV series starring Ethan Hawke The year is 1969 In a housing project in south Brooklyn a shambling old church deacon called Sportcoat shoots for no apparent reason the local drug dealer who used to be part of the church s baseball team The repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community from Sportcoat s best friend Hot Sausage to the local Italian mobsters the police corrupt and otherwise and the stalwart ladies of the Five Ends Baptist Church DEACON KING KONG is a book about a community under threat about the ways people pull together in an age when the old rules are being rewritten It is very funny in places and heartbreaking in others From a prize winning storyteller this New York Times bestseller shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden and that the communities we build are fragile but vital
