James McBride's Deacon King Kong is a feverish ... filling his pages with Puerto Ricans, African Americans, Italians, and Irish folks. And all these many people get a turn in the spotlight.

His new novel ... twenty and is buried at eighty”—somehow get saved, over and over again. The sheer volume of invention in “Deacon King Kong”—on the level of both character (the ...

That’s the set up for James McBride’s new novel called “ Deacon King Kong ... Standing at his pulpit mumbling down the Sick and Shut‑ in Prayer List, Pastor Gee received the paper bearing Hettie’s ...

“Deacon King Kong ... one of his own choosing. There is something to be said for that. Correction: An earlier version of this review referred to the Five Points Church; the name of the ...