Adventure
by Percival Everett
When Jim learns he's about to be sold and separated from his family forever, he flees into the unknown. Huck Finn, escaping his violent father, fakes his own death and joins him on the Mississippi. Percival Everett reimagines Twain's classic from Jim's perspective, revealing the intelligence, agency, and interior life of a man fighting for freedom in a nation built on his oppression.
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