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James by Percival Everett
An action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, written by a black author and told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

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, who recently returned to town. 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. Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

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