There’s an implacable hit woman and not one but two buried treasures. There are Italian American gangsters and the extremely gossipy members of the church’s multiracial congregation, as well as local characters with nicknames like Sportcoat and Hot Sausage. The reasons for this act are unknown, and the repercussions unexpected. The action hangs on an inexplicable act: an alcoholic 71-year-old deacon of the Five Ends Baptist Church shoots the ear off a 19-year-old drug dealer he once coached on the Cause Houses baseball team.
Set in the Causeway Housing Projects in South Brooklyn in 1969, this comic novel is rooted in a milieu much like the Red Hook neighborhood where McBride’s parents founded the modest church he attends to this day. Nevertheless, many people took the pandemic as an occasion to get some reading done, and fortunately, there were plenty of splendid new books to feed that urge. When book sales were up in 2020, the bump went to known quantities, the established authors who already rule the bestseller lists.
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