Sunday Book Club: James by Percival Everett

Schedule

Sun Sep 07 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY, United States, New York 12010 | Amsterdam, NY

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2024),
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2024)
*Review From Goodreads:
"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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