Book Chamber: Black History Month - February 2025

James is a novel by author Percival Everett. The novel is a re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave. ‍‍Some of the early scenes of Everett's novel closely follow Huckleberry Finn, but as the two separate and Jim goes off on his own picaresque "adventures", the tone turns more serious as it explores issues of rape, murder, beatings, and racism.
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‍The novel won the 2024 Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.