Review:
This book is a reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from Jim's perspective. In Everett's version of the story, everything Jim says and does in the original story is an act designed to play into the way the white people around him believe slaves should speak and behave. In reality, however, Jim is secretly more literate than many of the white people around him.
Although the first half of this, in particular, is a fairly faithful retelling of the original story, it wraps up in ways that are completely different.
