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Huckleberry Jim
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Publisher: Workhouse Editions
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A 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.
Axel 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. His 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.
Darkly 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.
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