Book Review: A feverish love letter to New York City, 'Deacon King Kong' is about flawed, poor people navigating an ugly, racist world — and trying their best with the help of God, each other, or the bottle.
is fast, deep, complex, and hilarious. McBride's prose is shimmering and moving, a living thing that has its own rhythm, pulls you in from the first page and never lets go. His story focuses on the people that make the Big Apple what it is: the strange, the poor, the insane, the mobsters. He also showcases the city's wonderful diversity, filling his pages with Puerto Ricans, African Americans, Italians, and Irish folks.
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