Book Discussion - James

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. 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 Percy Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before.

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