Book Review: James

James
By Percival Everett
Review by Renata

The mercurial master does it again! Very few writers could successfully balance the choreography required by a breakneck plot with nuanced character, biting comedy, and excoriating revisionist history. Everett not only achieves all this (and more), but makes it look easy.

Here, Mark Twain’s Jim becomes James, the towering hero of a novel in which Huck Finn is relegated to his rightful place as sidekick. The tender – and revelatory – nature of the pair’s relationship is just one of this incredible novel’s many expertly evoked complexities. A new classic. Read it!

You can listen to Renata’s review from RDU below.