James McBride - Deacon King Kong - Free Audiobook

An accomplished musician as well as the author of the classic memoir The Color of Water and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, McBride infuses every word of his eagerly awaited new novel—the first in seven years—with his signature rhythmic prose, dynamic storytelling, and sheer passion. Set in Brooklyn in 1969, the narrative leaps into action with Sportcoat, a Baptist preacher, shooting Deems, a young drug dealer, in the courtyard of the Case House project. As news of the killing spreads, the community’s residents tell stories of their own experiences of racism and the rising scourge of drugs and fill in the details explaining how Deems and Sportcoat came to their dramatic showdown.