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10 Stars - which I know is not possible, but this book is an absolute masterpiece that deserves every star imaginable.
Percival Everett takes American classic, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and upends all of the discourse around the original by telling the story through the voice of James. James provides so much of the original story of Huckleberry Finn, but makes us live the affects of the "adventure" from the perspective of an enslaved man just before the civil war. Honestly, this paragraph ...more
Percival Everett takes American classic, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and upends all of the discourse around the original by telling the story through the voice of James. James provides so much of the original story of Huckleberry Finn, but makes us live the affects of the "adventure" from the perspective of an enslaved man just before the civil war. Honestly, this paragraph ...more
Narrator was awesome. Book was a 3, but he pushed it up to a 4 for me.
