Evening Adult Book Discussion

Join us for a discussion of Deacon King Kong by James McBride on Monday, January 3 at 6:30 pm or Wednesday, January 12 at 9 am. 

"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. In Deacon King Kong, 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."

Copies are available at the circulation desk one month prior to discussion in regular print, large print and audio.