Review: Forget Huck Finn. Novel 'James' tells us what Jim th

In his straightforward, easy-prose rewrite of "Finn," Everett grants us immediate access to that familiar time and place, right before the Civil War, when it was terrifying to be a Black person in Missouri, racially offensive language and all.

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