Talking Books

Our title for discussion is: James by Percival Everett

Summary: 

"A brilliant reimaging 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, this 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 literacy icon, the 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 cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature."

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