Join us this month when we'll be discussin g "James" by Percival Everett.
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When the ens laved 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 nearb y Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile\, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father\, recently returned to to wn. As all readers of American literature know\, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the el usive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. Whil e many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain i n place (floods and storms\, stumbling across both unexpected death and un expected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks\, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin)\, Jim's agen cy\, intelligence\, and compassion are shown in a radically new light.&nbs p\;
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