GFJ Book Club In-Person
Meeting are held on the 4th Wednesday of the month in the downstairs meeting room from 1-2 PM and via Zoom from 7-8 PM. Contact Head of Adult Services, Kenneth Roman, for more information.
This month we are discussing "James" by Percival Everett!
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."
- Date:
- Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Scott Room
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Book Club
Kenneth Roman
Head of Adult Services & Tech Center Manager
Kenneth Roman has been a dedicated member of the George F. Johnson Memorial Library team since 2006, starting as a high schooler and transitioning to a librarian in 2016 after earning a Master’s in Library and Information Science with a School Media focus from Syracuse University. As the Head of Adult Services, Kenneth oversees the Adult Department, including adult collection development, programming, and the Tech Center services. For inquiries, you can contact Kenneth at en.roman@4cls.org or gfjtechcenter@gmail.com.