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“The fact is, no one in the projects really knew why Sportcoat shot Deems - not even Sportcoat himself,” writes James McBride in Deacon King Kong.

Get Deacon King Kong in the Apple Books app on your iPhone or iPad, and follow Oprah’s Book Club on Instagram to join the conversation.įor more stories like this, sign up for our newsletter.By James McBride. The first pick in this new iteration was Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, second was Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, and the most recent selection was Hidden Valley Roadby Robert Kolker. I’m grateful to Oprah for the chance to share that view, through my book, with the members of Oprah’s Book Club.”ĭeacon King Kong is the fifth selection in Oprah's recently-launched Book Club with Apple, a partnership created to connect readers around the world through the books they can access immediately on their devices. The belief that we have more in common than we are different has driven my career. It’s my job, as a writer, to believe in the good and the right. McBride had this to say on finding out his latest book had been chosen for Oprah's book club: “In a world that at times seems to be going mad, books are a source of reason and discourse-a pipeline to freedom. He is also an accomplished jazz musician. Together, his books have been translated into nineteen languages. James McBride is also author of the classic memoir, The Color of Water, as well as the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, which will be released later this summer as a Showtime series starring Ethan Hawke. In selecting the book, Oprah continued: "I am hoping readers will find in it what I did: sorrow, joy, resilience, humanity, and an understanding that while we struggle with pain and trauma, we can find shelter in one another."ĭeacon King Kong was initially published earlier this year by Riverhead Books. Set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 much like the one where the author grew up, the novel features a cast of characters who struggle to keep their heads above water amid poverty, loss, racial tensions, and crime-yet they always have one another’s backs, and what could have turned tragic instead turns into a tale of resilience, hope, and humanity. "In a moment when our country roils with righteous anger and grief," Oprah said, " Deacon King Kong reminds us that when we come together as a community in compassion and empathy, our love triumphs." Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play