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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

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 consequen

Deacon King Kong A Novel

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    Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
    Publication Date: 02/02/2021
    ISBN13: 9780735216730, 978-0735216730
    ISBN10: 0735216738
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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

    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 consequen

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