Deacon King Kong

I suggested this for my book club. None of us finished it by the time we met last week. This just didn't work for me - there were too many characters and I couldn't keep everyone straight, and it took me too long to get through it so I kept forgetting who people were or what their deal is. McBride is clearly a very good writer at a sentence level, so I would give his work another shot, but otherwise I'm thinking I just might be the wrong reader.