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The FLC Library Committee​

Book Club
James by Percival Everett
June 24, 7 pm
Discussion Leader: Karen Thomas
“James” by Percival Everett, is a “brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.”  (Summary by goodreads)
Please contact Katie Pyne or Roger Steinke for additional information about the Book Club. A copy of the Featured Book of the Month is available in the First Lutheran Church Library.

June 2025 Library News
The featured books for June are on the Library table in the narthex. Welcoming the stranger is an important part of our Christian faith. In honor of World Refugee Day on June 20, we're highlighting books about those that find themselves in a strange land far from the homes they love. These fiction and non-fiction books can help broaden our understanding of the complexities of the immigrant and refugee experience.
Check it out!​​

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