Paperback - 320 pagesNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION,AND OPRAH DAILYA brilliant, action-packed reimagining ofAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously fu
Paperback – 320 pages
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION,AND OPRAH DAILY
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining ofAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view From the literary icon (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novelErasureis the basis for Cord Jeffersons critically acclaimed filmAmerican Fiction
“If you likedDemon Copperhead,by Barbara Kingsolver, read James,by Percival Everett” The Washington Post
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 ofAdventures of Huckleberry Finnremain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the rivers banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin), Jims agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime,Jamesis destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
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