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My Jim

by Nancy Rawles

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To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving, Sadie Watson 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 Finn. Sadie is suddenly left alone, worried about her children, reviled as a witch, punished for Jim's escape, and convinced her husband is dead. But Sadie's will and her love for Jim animate her life and see her through.

Told with spare eloquence and mirroring the true stories of countless slave women, My Jim recreates one of the most controversial characters in American literature. A nuanced critique of the great American novel, My Jim is a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love.

Review:

"A wonderful first-person narrative...both a love story and a chronicle of a brutal time in American history." Chicago Tribune

Review:

"My Jim is a compelling, eloquently written novel that can stand on its own merits beside the great works that inspired it." San Francisco Chronicle

Review:

"Rawles's affecting spin-off of Twain's classic gives the resilient Sadie Watson a harrowing story and a powerful voice to tell it." Entertainment Weekly

Review:

"In a spare, naturalistic style that's reminiscent of oral history, Rawles covers territory Twain did not....As heart-wrenching a personal history as any recorded in American literature." New York Times Book Review

Synopsis:

A spare and beautiful meditation on love and loss, this novel follows the life of Sadie, the abandoned wife of the escaped slave Jim from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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About the Author

Nancy Rawles is an award-winning novelist and playwright. Her novel Love Like Gumbo was the recipient of the American Book Award. She lives in Seattle.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781400054015

Author:

Rawles, Nancy

Publisher:

Three Rivers Press (CA)

Author:

Various

Subject:

General

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Teenage girls

Subject:

Loss (psychology)

Subject:

Domestic fiction

Subject:

Historical fiction

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

2006

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Publication Date:

20060131

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

192

Dimensions:

12 x 9 x 5 in 9.8031 lb

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Product details 192 pages Three Rivers Press (CA) - 2007-04-10 English 9781400054015 Reviews:

"Review" by Chicago Tribune, "A wonderful first-person narrative...both a love story and a chronicle of a brutal time in American history."

"Review" by San Francisco Chronicle, "My Jim is a compelling, eloquently written novel that can stand on its own merits beside the great works that inspired it."

"Review" by Entertainment Weekly, "Rawles's affecting spin-off of Twain's classic gives the resilient Sadie Watson a harrowing story and a powerful voice to tell it."

"Review" by New York Times Book Review, "In a spare, naturalistic style that's reminiscent of oral history, Rawles covers territory Twain did not....As heart-wrenching a personal history as any recorded in American literature."

"Synopsis" by Ingram, A spare and beautiful meditation on love and loss, this novel follows the life of Sadie, the abandoned wife of the escaped slave Jim from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.