Book Club--"James" by Percival Everett

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold away from his family, he decides to hide on an island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father. Huck and Jim join in a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond--in this retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's intelligent and compassionate perspective.