![]() ![]() And as they deal with this issue, you see these different worlds coming together and how they come to know each other, to like each other, to tolerate each other, to respect each other and to even dislike each other. And they all come together to kind of work on this problem. And then you have your Irish police force - largely Irish police force. And then you have the surrounding area, which is Italian, Jewish. Then you have the projects, which is a mix of Black and Hispanic people. It sets off a wave of activity both in the community, in the church. ![]() ![]() ![]() And that shooting sets off - it’s like dropping a rock in a pond. A church deacon, known as Sportcoat, shoots a drug dealer at point-blank range, setting off a chain of events.Īctually, let’s let McBride himself give you a synopsis: “ Deacon King Kong is essentially a book about a deacon from a small Baptist church in the southwest corner of Brooklyn who gets drunk one morning, pulls out his old, ancient 38, walks up to the most dreadful drug dealer in the neighborhood and shoots him. The story - about race and religion and community in the 1960s - begins with a shooting in September 1969 at a housing project in Brooklyn. Deacon King Kong is Winfrey’s 85th (!!) book club selection. ![]()
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