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SUMMARY:Northfield Library Contemporary Women Writers Book Group
DESCRIPTION:\nFor October we will be reading James by Percival 
 Everett.\n\nJames is a retelling 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.\n\nOrder book here ---> 
 James\n\nThe Northfield Library Contemporary Women Writers Book Group meets 
 eleven times a year\, January through November.  \n\nWe meet at the 
 Northfield Public Library in the Bunday Meeting Room.\n\nFor further 
 information please contact Joan Ennis at jcennisbooks@gmail.com\n\n\n
LOCATION:Bunday Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Maus":MAILTO:steve.maus@northfieldmn.gov
CATEGORIES:Book Club
CONTACT;CN="Steve Maus":MAILTO:steve.maus@northfieldmn.gov
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