PACG Book Club - James: A Novel by Percival Everett
Monday, September 16th at 5:15 pm - hybrid meeting
Edwards Congregational UCC
3420 Jersey Ridge Rd
Davenport, IA (map)
PACG Book Club
For September we will read and discuss James: A Novel by Percival Everett. This is a retelling of the story of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim. I've read it and found it to be a real page-turner! You might want to take the opportunity to read Huckleberry Finn again.
Contact me for the Zoom link if you want to come that way.
Our October book will be Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew. Read more at this PACG Blog post.
Alta Price
Here is more information about James: A Novel from Goodreads:
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
Contact me for the Zoom link if you want to come that way.
Our October book will be Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew. Read more at this PACG Blog post.
Alta Price
Here is more information about James: A Novel from Goodreads:
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
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