Adult Book Club: James by Percival Everett

Join us for Adult Book Club! Connect with your community and share your thoughts about the books you've read. Adult Book Club meets on the second to last Tuesday of the month at 6:00PM at the library. Contact the Adult Department (205-655-2022 or dHIgISBhZHVsdCB8IGpjbGMgISBvcmc=) if you need assistance in obtaining books or have any question. Meeting dates and books are listed below. This month's book is James by Percival Everett. 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.

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