EAN: 9781400054015

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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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