Shelf Indulgence Book Club

Adult Program

Join as we discuss James by Percival Everett (details below)

This book will be available in limited physical quantities at the library circulation desk about a month before we meet. E-book format is available in Libby. Please register so I can prepare seating, send discussion questions and a Zoom link in case you decide to attend virtually.  This is a hybrid event - attend in person or virtually via Zoom. You must have a valid email address to use Zoom.

James by Percival Everett

Goodreads Choice Award

Nominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2024), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2024)

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.