"In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range ... In [this novel], McBride brings to ... life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed...