James
by Percival Everett
5/5
Doubleday 318 pages March 19, 2024
Percival Everett retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim, the enslaved man who escapes down the Mississippi with Huck. This Jim is a sharp, literate man who hides his intelligence behind the dialect white people expect to hear. The novel won the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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A bookworm named Jim has to respect a book called James. Everett takes Twain's most famous sidekick and hands him the pen, and the result is funny, furious and brilliant. The scenes where Jim teaches children to perform the 'right' dialect for white listeners are as sharp as satire gets, and the river adventure moves like a flood. The violence is unflinching. Five worms — an instant classic in conversation with an old one.
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