McBride’s got jokes like Ali Wong’s got jokes. It’s clear that he’s having a blast, and his spirit of funning irreverence supercharges the entire narrative like home-brewed black lightning. He has written beautifully before, in his beloved memoir, “The Color of Water,” and, with terrifying irreverence, in his National Book Award-winning novel, “The Good Lord Bird.” But “Deacon King Kong” reads like he’s tapped a whole fresh seam of inspiration and verve. Fortunately, it is also deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane McBride’s ability to inhabit his characters’ foibled, all-too-human interiority helps transform a fine book into a great one. “Deacon King Kong” is many things: a mystery novel, a crime novel, an urban farce, a portrait of a project community. *** Best Novel of 2020! Deacon King Kong: A Novelīuy Now:
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