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When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. More about this book >
Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His most recent books include Dr. No, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Award; The Trees, finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; Telephone, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; So Much Blue; Erasure; and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and the Windham Campbell Prize. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna.
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