Book Club Conversation - 9:30 – 10:45 AM, Deets Room

James, by Percival Everett

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About: A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. 

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize Winner * #1 New York Times Best Seller *. National Book Award Winner * National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * One of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for the Booker Prize * Kirkus Prize Winnter * A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years * In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg * A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review , LA Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, Time, and more.

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