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The Brickell Literary Society presents… For years now, Books & Books has been working closely with the Brickell Literary Society (BLS) to identify and bring to Miami a wealth of A-list authors who regale readers during a lunchtime keynote presentation at Temple Israel in downtown Miami. Members of BLS, are all passionately interested in literature and meet once a month to enjoy a delicious lunch, listen to an author that has been hand-picked by Mitchell Kaplan, and receive their signed copy of the author’s new book. Next week BLS will proudly host Percival Everett and he’ll be speaking to us about his newest novel, James (Knopf, $29) a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. “James is funny and horrifying, brilliant and riveting. In telling the story of Jim instead of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett delivers a powerful, necessary corrective to both literature and history. I found myself cheering both the writer and his hero. Who should read this book? Every single |