![]() ![]() He says that Sportcoat’s attempt to shoot Deems “hits all the levers and gets all the elevators started” (Award-Winning Author… 02:09-02:13), a metaphor that implies that members of the community act as parts of a larger whole, influencing and affecting one another. ![]() In a video interview from August 2020 shortly after Deacon King Kong was published, McBride states that he views the story as being chiefly about a community. This common location and the Brooklyn neighborhood in which the Cause is located give all the characters a unifying identity, even if they relate to the area differently (for example, Potts works in the neighborhood but doesn’t live there, and Elefante doesn’t live in the Cause Houses but is still a part of the larger neighborhood). The novel is populated with various characters in and surrounding the Cause Houses, which act as the epicenter of the novel’s conflicts and action. The author has teamed with global content company Sister to develop his latest novel, Deacon King Kong, as a TV series. Deacon King Kong is at its heart the story of a community grappling with social change in 20th-century America. James McBride is bringing his latest best-seller to TV. ![]()
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