What we’re about
1) The purpose of this book club is to cultivate a literary community in the city of Detroit. A community that is centered on meaningful and engaging discussions surrounding books. Additionally, the purpose is to support the Detroit community by hosting our meetups at various local businesses in the city and the metro area.
2) You should join if you have an interest or passion for books and reading, an interest or passion in building a community, an interest or passion in supporting local businesses in Detroit, or all of the above!
3) We will discuss our thoughts and perspectives of the month's chosen book while dining at a local business in the city. We will get to know each other while also getting to know a new or old business owner right in our city.
4) This is about building community, too, so feel free to attend even if you didn't read OR finish the book. We'd still love to meet you! :)
5) Lastly, there will be a $5/meetup fee to offset the costs of meetup.com for the administrator of the group.
Upcoming events (4)
See all- April's book discussion "James" by Percival EverettNeeds location$4.25
For April we will be reading "James" by Percival Everett. Location to be determined.
As always, shop local!
- Source Booksellers- Detroit
- Pages bookstore-Detroit
- Book Suey-Hamtramck
Synopsis:
A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and ferociously funny—told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewWhen 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.
About the author:
Percival Everett is an American writer whose works reflect a wide range of subjects and styles and often deal head-on with philosophy and preconceptions concerning race. He has authored more than 30 books of fiction and poety, including the novels I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) and Telephone (2020), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His satiric novel Erasure (2001) was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film American Fiction (2023). In 2024 his novel James, a retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), won the National Book Award for fiction. Regarded as a cult writer in the United States, Everett has been described by The Washington Post as among “the most adventurously experimental of modern American novelists.”
