James

About “James”

James, a 2024 novel by Percival Everett, reimagines Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When Jim overhears he is to be sold and separated from his wife and daughter, he runs away, while Huck fakes his own death to escape his violent father, and the two begin a dangerous raft journey down the Mississippi toward the Free States.