A review by angela_boyce
Deacon King Kong by James McBride

5.0

I struggled to get into this book right away, the dialogue and many characters were hard to follow at first, I almost stopped but I’m so glad I didn’t! I laughed and cried and throughly enjoyed this story. It’s a story set in housing projects, a place often seen only for its crime and poverty and struggle. While the book shows these things, it more importantly shows the humanity and community, love and joy behind what so many just see as a statistic. As the story progressed I grew to care deeply about the characters even if I still got some of them confused, and the dialogue got easier to read and often made me laugh out loud. One of my favorite reads this year!