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August Book du Mois!

Thursday, August 28, 2025
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Thu
Aug 28
6:15 pm
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7:30 pm
Cavalier House Books - Lafayette
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302 A Jefferson St.
Free

Our August Book du Mois is James by Percival Everett! Thank you to everyone who voted for this month’s pick!

We’ll meet in the bookshop at 6:15 p.m. on Aug. 28 to discuss Everett’s reimagining of Jim from Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Synopsis:

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 the electrifying 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.

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