James is the New Jim
Remember your high school English class where you read Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Author Percival Everett’s favorite character from Twain’s novel must have been Jim, the runaway slave and Huck’s good friend. In his 320-page novel, James: A Novel Everett writes a first-person account from Jim’s point-of-view of life along the Mississippi River during the…