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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
      Published 2 February 2021
      ISBN-13 9780735216730
      978-0735216730
      ISBN-10 0735216738

      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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