To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving Sadie Watson mines her memory for the
tale of the unquenchable love of her life Jim. Sadie's Jim was an ambitious young slave and
seer who when faced with the prospect of being sold escaped down the Mississippi with a white
boy named Huck Finn. Sadie is suddenly left alone worried about her children reviled as a
witch punished for Jim's escape and convinced her husband is dead. But Sadie's will and her
love for Jim animate her life and see her through. Told with spare eloquence and mirroring the
true stories of countless slave women My Jim recreates one of the most controversial
characters in American literature. A nuanced critique of the great American novel My Jim is a
haunting and inspiring story about freedom longing and the remarkable endurance of love. Look
for the Reader's Group Guide at the back of this book.
