I’m going to take a wild guess here and surmise that this book is about someone named James.  There is not much more to go on. If you look at the curved part of the “J”, you’ll notice (what appears to be) a woodcut of a man walking with a stick and sack over his shoulder. (ChatGPT tells me this is called a “bindle.”) Since his clothing looks old-fashioned, I’ll assume it’s about a homeless person taking all his earthly possessions on a journey of some sort.

That’s all I got out of this. My reaction isn’t “Wow, I really want to read a book about someone named James going on some sort of journey!”

I think the author’s name, Percival Everett, is cool, though.

And the cover informs me that this book is a NY Times Bestseller.  I’m going to ignore this, though, as the original cover could not possibly have included this.  And based on the rest, I see no compelling reason to pick up this book about a guy named James who walks somewhere.