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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.
Look for the Reader's Group Guide at the back of this book.
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John Long
reviewed My Jim on October 04, 2013
My Jim
This book is such a brutal, grinding portrayal of American slavery. Nothing in tone or plot connected it to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for me (it's framed as a prequel), other than it was a very contemporary and lucid look at slavery.
I came to this book equating American slavery with hard work in the hot sun accompanied by whippings. I left equating American slavery with the systemic rape of women and children, violent theft of small children from their mothers, routine murder, and white men so filled with racist rage that they would abandon their own sons and daughters to the same incomprehensible horrors.
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