![]() ![]() and Malcolm X only a few years earlier, the end of the decade was a somber time for Black people in the United States. Deacon King Kong is his first novel since winning the National Book Award for The Good Lord Bird, which has been adapted by Showtime as a limited series starring Ethan Hawke, Joshua Caleb Johnson. The novel is set in the late 1960s with the assassinations of both Martin Luther King Jr. “This was fresh, rich, heavenly, succulent, soft, creamy, kiss-my-ass, cows-gotta-die-for-this, delightfully salty, moo-ass, good old white folks cheese, cheese to die for, cheese to make you happy, cheese to beat the cheese boss, cheese for the big cheese, cheese to end the world, cheese so good it inspired a line every first Saturday of the month: mothers, daughters, fathers, grandparents, disabled in wheelchairs, kids, relatives from out of town, white folks from nearby Brooklyn Heights, and even South American workers from the garbage-processing plant on Concord Avenue, all patiently standing in a line that stretched from the interior of Hot Sausage’s boiler room to Building 17’s outer doorway, up the ramp to the sidewalk, curling around the side of the building and to the plaza near the flagpole Naturally, Sportcoat’s affinity with the very important distributor of that item, Hot Sausage, guaranteed him a hunk no matter what the demand, which was always good news for him and Hettie. Deacon King Kong is many things: a mystery novel, a crime novel, an urban farce, a portrait of a project community. Deacon King Kong opens in medias res (in the middle of the action) and then takes the reader back in time to explain what led up to Deems’s shooting. ![]()
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