'James' revisits Huck Finn's traveling companion, giving rise to a new classic
Briefly

In a fever dream of a retelling, the new reigning king of satire, Percival Everett, has turned one of America's best loved classics, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, upside down...
A subtle but significant change is that while the events of Twain's 1884 novel take place in the Mississippi Valley, in the 1840s, Everett advances the timeline by two decades...
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