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ASL Book Club

Do you love to read and talk about books? Are you interested in participating in a book discussion on Zoom in American Sign Language? If so, this book club is for YOU!

Come join us for an ASL Book Club on Zoom every other month on a Wednesday evening from 6-7 p.m. ET.

The ASL Book Club is facilitated by Librarian Janice Rosen from the Center for Accessibility.

NOTE: Even if you do not know sign language, you are welcome to join us. Voice and automatic captioning will be provided!

The book for July 22, 2026 is James by Percival Everett.

Abstract:

"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.

While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light."

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