“James”

[unctarheel1984]

Has anyone else read the book? I’m finishing it today. Started yesterday morning.
It is a novel reimagining Mark Twain’s “Advetures of Hucklebrry Finn” from the perspective of Jim the slave who escapes Hannibal, MO on a raft with Huck. The slave dialect takes a few chapters getting used to, but the book is a quick and interesting read.

“James” was written by Percival Everett and released in 2024. It won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.

 

[Aguia Vitoria]

I started it, got. few pages in and then got distracted by something, probably a new episode of It's Florida, Man or something equally cerebral. I have promised myself not to start any more new books in 2026 until I finish up some holdovers from 2025.