
My Jim: A Novel
A deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American literature, Huckleberry Finn’s JimWritten in the great literary tradition of novels of American slavery, My Jim is told in the incantatory voice of Sadie Watson, an ex-slave who schools her granddaughter with lessons of love she learned in bondage. To help her granddaughter confront the decisions she needs to make, S...
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Crown Publishers; First Edition first Printing edition (January 11, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400054001
ISBN-13: 978-1400054008
Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 3774077
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“It was well-written but difficult to read about the amount of suffering endured by the main characters. It described slavery in very graphic terms and made me very angry to think that people were mistreated for so long in America....”
die mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie’s Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy named Huck. Sadie is suddenly left alone. Worried about her children, convinced her husband is dead, reviled as a witch, and punished for Jim’s escape, Sadie’s will and her love for Jim, even in absentia, animate her life and see her through.Told with spare eloquence and mirroring the true stories of countless slave women, My Jim re-creates one of the most controversial characters in American literature. A nuanced critique of the great American novel, My Jim stands on its own as a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love.
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