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Oprah Winfrey has chosen Deacon King Kong by James McBride as the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick. “In a moment when our country roils with anger and grief, this book reminds us that when we come together as a community in compassion and empathy, our love triumphs.”—Oprah Winfrey Click to Watch Oprah’s Announcement. Click to Read an Excerpt of Deacon King […]

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From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. 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 […]

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