{"product_id":"deacon-king-kong-by-james-mcbride","title":"Deacon King Kong by James McBride","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Gotham Book Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of Barack Obama's \"Favorite Books of the Year\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOprah's Book Club Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Heaven \u0026amp; Earth Grocery Store\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e the National Book Award–winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Good Lord Bird, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand the bestselling modern classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Color of Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/span\u003e, James McBride’s funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/span\u003e. In \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/span\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing 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 \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/span\u003e and as emotionally honest as \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Color of Water\u003c\/span\u003e. Told with insight and wit, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/span\u003e demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jen Hatmaker Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67645503635757,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/1883\/1697\/files\/deaconkingkong.jpg?v=1791992075","url":"https:\/\/shop.jenhatmaker.com\/products\/deacon-king-kong-by-james-mcbride","provider":"Jen Hatmaker","version":"1.0","type":"link"}