About the book
Percival L. Everett retells Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim, Huck's enslaved companion. In Hannibal, Missouri, Jim, his wife Sadie and their daughter Lizzie speak standard English among themselves but adopt a broken dialect and play ignorant around white people for safety. When he hears that Miss Watson means to sell him to a man in New Orleans, Jim runs, planning to come back for his family, and hides on Jackson Island. There he meets Huck, who has staged his own death to get away from an abusive father, and the two head down the Mississippi by raft. Its honors include the National Book Award and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
Ryan Holiday, listing it among the very best books he read in 2024, said he spent his birthday reading it and counted that as a great gift.
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Ryan Holiday (Media Strategist, Author, Founder/Brass Check)
I spent my birthday reading James and I consider that a great gift.
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