Review: Deacon King Kong

Deacon King Kong by James McBride
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What an interesting story with interesting people. 

This book takes place in a housing project in NYC. There are all the expected characters - drug dealers, gangsters, drunks, the homeless, deacons, strong women. It goes beyond the stereotype and gives us the humanity of those people...the drunk who moved there as a young man with his future ahead of him, the drug dealer who was a baseball phenom as a child, the preacher's wife who lifts up the whole community. Lives are entangled and lessons are learned. I loved the connectedness of the characters in the story.

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