September 2026 Book Club

Sept, 2026 James by Percival Everett

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing
and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view, soon to be a feature
film by Steven Spielberg.

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.