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My Jim

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"A deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American literature, Huckleberry Finn's Jim" Written 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, Sadie 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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Praise for "My Jim" "This book is a beautiful and powerful re-vision that teaches us to see with new eyes. I wholeheartedly recommend it." --Sherman Alexie Praise for "Love Like Gumbo," winner of the American Book Award "At each bend and turn, in a blend of the past and the present, in Broussard's Creole world of Louisiana and South Central L.A., Rawles offers a beautiful first novel rich with the intricacies of a family that endures as part of, but separate from, that complicated tapestry we call America." --Colleen McElroy "This novel celebrates family life at the same time it reminds readers that separation doesn't necessarily mean rejection. Rawles's first effort is sure to please fiction lovers." --"Library Journal" Praise for "My Jim "This book is a beautiful and powerful re-vision that teaches us to see with new eyes. I wholeheartedly recommend it." --Sherman Alexie Praise for "Love Like Gumbo, winner of the American Book Award "At each bend and turn, in a blend of the past and the present, in Broussard's Creole world of Louisiana and South Central L.A., Rawles offers a beautiful first novel rich with the intricacies of a family that endures as part of, but separate from, that complicated tapestry we call America." --Colleen McElroy "This novel celebrates family life at the same time it reminds readers that separation doesn't necessarily mean rejection. Rawles's first effort is sure to please fiction lovers." --"Library Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781400054008
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Publisher Imprint: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1400054001
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 363 gr


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