PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant
action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn both harrowing and darkly
humorous told from the enslaved Jim's point of view NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR
THE BOOKER PRIZE • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30
YEARS In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg • A Best Book of the
Year: The New York Times Book Review LA Times The New Yorker The Atlantic The Economist
TIME and more. "Genius" —The Atlantic • "A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the
classics of American literature while also being a major achievement on its own." —Chicago
Tribune • "A provocative enlightening literary work of art." —The Boston Globe • "Everett’s
most thrilling novel but also his most soulful." —The New York Times When Jim overhears that
he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans separated from his wife and daughter forever
he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile Huck has faked his own death to escape
his violent father. As all readers of American literature know thus begins the dangerous and
transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable
promise of the Free States and beyond. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating
observations that have made Everett a literary icon this brilliant and tender novel radically
illuminates Jim’s agency intelligence and compassion as never before. James is destined to be
a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
