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Central Book Club In-Person
Central Book Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm.
For a list of all our books for the year, visit this page.
For the virtual/online branch-off of this book club, which meets the third Tuesday of every other month, visit our separate registration page.
This month we are reading James by Percival Everett. The book is available to check out from the library here.
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.
Related LibGuide: Events and Programs for Adults by Van Hoang
- Date:
- Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- B Room
- Audience:
- Adults Public
- Categories:
- Library Event
