Book Club - James by Percival Everett

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Tue May 19 2026 at 05:45 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

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Compass Point home of Dirty Girl Adventures | Topeka, KS

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Join Compass Point, home of Dirty Girl Adventures, for Book Club. We're reading James by Percival Everett a retelling of Huck Finn from Jim
About this Event

Join us for our bi-monthly Book Club! Tuesday, May 19th, from 5:45- 7:30.

You are welcome to bring your dinner or snacks to the book club; feel free to bring a friend as well!

The bar is open during book club with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

This is a free event! Everyone is welcome!

James by Percival Everett

Goodreads Choice Award

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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.

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