James
by Percival Everett · 2024
Literary Fiction · ranked #102 in category
Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2025Winner · The National Book Award for Fiction, 2024
A radical retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim — rechristened James — who is far more intelligent, self-aware and morally complex than Twain's narrator allows him to be. Everett's Booker Prize-winning novel is a devastating, often darkly funny examination of race, freedom and the authorship of American stories.
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- Essential Read
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