{"product_id":"huckleberry-jim-9798996345007","title":"Huckleberry Jim","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly funny 1991 road novel about two actors touring a stripped-down Huckleberry Finn through a hostile America - publishing during Banned Books Week, in the year of America's Semiquincentennial, and the 150th anniversary of Tom Sawyer. For readers of Percival Everett's James.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAxel Emerson isn't chasing a dream - he's running from a body. After the sudden death of his estranged father, and the detective's calls that follow, a washed-up casting agent offers him an exit: tour the schools as Huck Finn in a stripped-down, two-man stage version of the American classic. It's 1991, and the country is cracking open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis co-star is Moses Morton, a fifty-five-year-old Black actor cast as Jim - and from the first moment, Moses sees straight through him. Their road trip through hostile American towns becomes a crash course in race, history, and performative ignorance, recited from lines a white man wrote in 1884 about a country that hasn't changed as much as it thinks. When performance and reality finally collide, there's no script left to hide behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarkly funny and unflinching, Huckleberry Jim is a reckoning with race, guilt, and the bedtime stories America tells itself to sleep at night. For readers of Percival Everett's James and Paul Beatty's The Sellout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Workhouse Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996345007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Adam Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53241217876149,"sku":"9798996345007","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/huckleberry-jim-9798996345007","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}