When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. Thus begins their dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River.
Percival Everett is the author of more than 30 books, including So Much Blue, Telephone, Dr. No and The Trees, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. His novel Erasure was made into the major film American Fiction. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Because we agree wholeheartedly with Ann Patchett, who calls James “a powerful, necessary corrective to both literature and history.”
“My interest lies not in questions about identity or expression, but in the actual logical construction of meaning,” says Percival Everett on the Living Writers podcast. Listen to the whole three-question interview here.