Deacon King Kong by James McBride Marker With folded hugging arms and

With folded hugging arms and

how market forces shape “serious” fiction

Made out of durable plastic

the pangs of his past and his half-forgotten memories overlap and threaten his peace

Brief essays explore what can be learned from the handwriting of celebrated artists such as Mary Cassatt

Deacon King Kong by James McBride Marker With folded hugging arms andWinner of the Anisfield Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year" Oprah's Book Club Pick Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of the National Book Awardwinning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated