a runaway slave and a best selling author | James by Percival Everett

Kicking off our first official episode for the Books & Martinis Podcast with our February Book of the Month, James by Percival Everett! Read along with us and join us for Book Club on February 25th at 7pm EST. About the book: 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.