James , by Percival Everett

This is an IN Person meeting.

Bring either a drink or dish or snack to share.

Sheri's house in Valley Village.

I will send the address to attendees a few days before the meeting.

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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

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.