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May
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May JEDI Book Club – James by Percival Everett @ Online Via Zoom
May 20 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

For our May 20th JEDI Book Club, we will be reading James by Percival Everett.

To register, click here to email Anne Melia, JEDI Book Club organizer.

Here is the Summary from Goodreads:

A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and ferociously funny—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 the electrifying 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.