{"product_id":"9781400054015","title":"My Jim: A Novel","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eRawles, Nancy\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOne World\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1\/24\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spare and beautiful meditation on love and longing, \u003ci\u003eMy Jim \u003c\/i\u003eholds an unrelenting gaze on the life and world of Sadie, the wife of Jim from Mark Twain’s \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Rawles covers territory Twain did not. . . . As heart-wrenching a personal history as any recorded in American literature.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in the great literary tradition of novels like \u003ci\u003eSula\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Jim\u003c\/i\u003e considers the historically important question \u003ci\u003eWhat happened to those enslaved persons who didn’t escape?\u003c\/i\u003e by investigating the fictional world of Sadie Watson, a formerly enslaved woman. In her old age, she narrates a tale pieced together from her life born in slavery as a means to help her granddaughter decide on whether to marry her love and move away. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Sadie tells her granddaughter her love story, she paints a beautiful and complex portrait of her Jim—a gifted seer, a man of wit and charisma. When faced with the prospect of being sold, Jim escapes down the Mississippi with a white boy named Huck Finn. Reviled as a witch, punished for Jim’s escape, and convinced he has died, Sadie must rely on her own will, the objects she has carried from her past, and her love for Jim to animate her life and see her through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA nuanced critique of the great American novel that mirrors the true story of countless enslaved women, \u003ci\u003eMy Jim\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting and inspiring story about inheritance, longing, and the liberating power of Black love in a world that did everything to extinguish it.","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43365630378239,"sku":"9781400054015","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781400054015_s600x595.jpg?v=1775595236","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781400054015","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}