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The National Book Award-winning author of the bestseller The Good Lord Bird comes to town with his first nonfiction work since his celebrated memoir The Color of Water (two years on the NY Times bestseller list and translated in 16 languages.) When McBride received a tip that promised to uncover the “real James Brown,” he set off on a trail that would reveal the influences that created this genius of soul music. Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul is more than a book about James Brown. It is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South, black and white, rich and poor.