First Lines Friday *Quarantine & Read*

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie. I encourage all of my fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

• Grab your current read(s). Aside from THE RONA updates.
• Share the first line(s). From anything except THE RONA updates.
• Include the title and author. Excluding media about THE RONA updates.

"Deacon Cuffy Lambkin of Five Ends Baptist Church became a walking dead man on a cloudy September afternoon in 1969. That's the day the old deacon, known as Sportcoat to his friends, marched out to the plaza of the Causeway Housing Projects in South Brooklyn, stuck an ancient .38 Colt in the face of a nineteen-year-old drug dealer named Deems Clemens, and pulled the trigger."

~ Deacon King Kong by James McBride