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Calling all individuals interested in meeting new people and reading and discussing books in the Beachwood, Orange, Pepper Pike, Mayfield, and nearby areas. We start every get-together greeting new attendees and sharing what is going on in our lives. We then begin our discussion from among a variety of thoughtful, engaging, provocative, and inspiring books. We are about having fun, encouraging ourselves to find more time to read, to relax, and enjoy ourselves with books, as well as to learn and grow in respectful, warm, and friendly exchanges.
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See all- Book Discussion and Get Together - James by Percival EverettOrange Branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library, Pepper Pike, OH
Let's get together and discuss James, by Percival Everett, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Book description by Goodreads:
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 nuanced 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.
Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2024), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2024)
A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view