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Harvard Club of sacramento Book Group Discussion (February 6, 2025)
The chosen book for our Book Group Discussion on Thursday, February 6, 2025 (from 6:00 to 7:15 PM PST) via Zoom: James by Percival Everett!
Topic: Harvard Club of Sacramento BookGroup
Time: Feb 6, 2025 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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This book was an instant New York Times bestseller, National Book Award winner, one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 best books of the year, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a Kirkus Prize winner. As noted by the New York Times, "[In] Percival Everett’s majestic new novel, James, Everett flips the perspective on the events in [Mark Twain's] Huckleberry Finn. He gives us the story as a coolly electric first-person narrative in the voice of Jim, the novel’s enslaved runaway. The pair’s adventures on the raft as it twisted down the Mississippi River were largely, from Huck’s perspective, larks. From Jim’s — excuse me, James’s — point of view, nearly every second is deadly serious. We recall that Jim told Huck, in Twain’s novel, that he was quite done with ;adventures.'” (See https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/books/review/percival-everett-james.html)
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When: Thursday, February 6, 2025, from 6:00 PM-7:15 PM PST
Where: Online. Zoom link to be given to those planning to attend.
RSVP: If you plan to attend, please email Linda at lindashortliffe@stanford.edu and/or Saralyn at saralyn.m.ang.olson@gmail.com. We look forward to your participation in our Club's Book Group!