Oprah picks James McBride's 'Deacon King Kong' for book club

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NEW YORK (AP) - Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon. But it also pays tribute to ...

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