James

James has the potential to become a classic . . . thrilling, bold and profoundThe Sunday Times

I’m demanding that you read Percival Everett’s novel James, in which Everett takes the camera from Twain’s Huck Finn and hands it to the slave, Jim. Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of themRoddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha

James is funny and horrifying, brilliant and riveting. In telling the story of Jim instead of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett delivers a powerful, necessary corrective to both literature and history. I found myself cheering both the writer and his hero. Who should read this book? Every single person in the countryAnn Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake

Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book. Unforgiving and compassionate, beautiful and brutal, a tragedy and a farce, this brilliant novel rewrites literary history to let us hear the voices it has long suppressedHernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust