All alumni, parents and friends of Kenyon are invited to attend the next virtual book club, organized by the Pittsburgh Regional Association. At this meeting of the book club the group will discuss "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 who 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.
Questions? Please contact Susan Apel ’83 P’16 at saapel17@gmail.com.