Join Deputy Director Katie Werth for a discussion of Deacon King Kong by James McBride.

In September 1969, a church deacon shuffles into a housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting, the reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it.