James
When Jim finds out he will be sold to another town and forever separated from his wife and daughter, he flees his master's home, trying to come up with a plan that will allow him to ransom them. Meanwhile, Huck escapes his evil father, joins Jim, and the two take a dangerous raft trip down the Mississippi to the free northern states where the slave Jim will become the free man James. Followed everywhere by Huck, Jim, who has secretly learned to read and write, chronicles his story from escape to a happy reunion with his family to the slave revolt he leads.
A sort of remake of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, James is a novel written with tenderness and irony in the language Jim learned from books and the language his black brethren speak. Named an absolute bestseller by the New York Times and one of the ten best books of 2024, it has been awarded the Pulitzer and Kirkus Prizes, the National Book Award for Fiction, and has been nominated for the Booker Prize.
Percival Everett
Persival Everett (born 1956) is an American writer and professor of English literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of 24 novels of various genres: mysteries, thrillers, and satires. His books have won a dozen prestigious awards.
