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Greenwich Library – Friends Book Group “James” by Percival Everett
October 8 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Join us this month in reading the 2024 Greenwich Reads Together selection, James, by Percival Everett.
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.
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Time:
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Meeting Room
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Book Discussion Friends
PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His latest novel, James, was published in March of 2024 to critical acclaim. His other titles include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children
Greenwich Reads Together is Greenwich Library’s community-wide reading experience which engages all of Greenwich in exploring a single book. In 2023, thousands of Greenwich residents read and participated in events around Solito, a memoir by poet and author Javier Zamora.
