Category: James McBride
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Deacon King Kong by James McBride is a story about a man named Sportcoat. That is not his real name but that is the only name people actually know him by. Sportcoat is a mostly harmless old man who lives in a project known as the Cause Houses in 1969. He is a drunk who…
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Story by James McBride is a sad, poignant and moving novel. The story opens with a body being discovered when some construction is started and there is some difficulty identifying the body though many in the area seem to have some idea how it got there. It then goes back…