![]() ![]() “Tommy” Elefante) who owns a trucking and storage company run out of a box car on the water. Her body was recovered by the Elephant (Thomas G. Hettie was a fine woman who met her end in the Hudson River in 1967. Hettie was the caretaker of the money and Sportcoat can’t find it, much to the dismay of the Five Points Baptist Church family. The talks mainly revolve around their church’s missing Christmas funds. ![]() He’s a kind man and a widower who has daily discussions with his late wife, Hettie. ![]() Deacon Cuffy Lambkin AKA Deacon King Kong AKA Sportcoat is the main character. If I were president I’d create a national book club and kick it off with this book.ĭeacon King Kong is set in 1969 Brooklyn, in The Causeway Housing projects. I’m certainly not the only one to recognize his greatness: former President Obama honored him with the 2015 National Humanities Medal for “humanizing the complexities of discussing race in America.” Agreed. McBride isn’t just a talented writer, he has a gift for bridging the humorous, the heartfelt, and the political in a single page. I savored his 2020 book Deacon King Kong over the last month or so, stretching out the pleasure by only reading it on my lunch breaks at work. ![]()
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