Percival Everett’s New Novel Is Destined to Become a Modern Classic
Sarah KimJames On a critical character from American literature-- and yet, seen afresh through the look of well-known author Percival Everett, it's as if we're fulfilling him for the very first time. Everett's topic is Jim, the enslaved runaway from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Blasted tidy of Twain's characterization, Jim emerges here as a guy of terrific self-respect, selflessness, and intelligence. The brand-new unique opens in Hannibal, Missouri, where Jim teaches enslaved kids to run their speech through a "servant filter" of "right inaccurate grammar," developed to calm white individuals. The story settles into Twain's familiar grooves-- on the run together, Jim and Huck raft down the Mississippi River, dealing with risk, separation, and charlatans aplenty. Along ...