Five-star review of James by Percival Everett
This was the second audio book I’ve listened to this year and I don’t know how the two different ‘voices’ James uses are conveyed in print, but the audio version made quite an impression on me. The slave Jim uses vocabulary and sentence structure his white owners expect, but James is really a well-read man with an excellent command of English. The story itself is as exciting, maybe more so, than the original Huckleberry Finn. James shows ingenuity at every turn. In that framework, we get a better understanding of the history of this country during the Civil War, the conflicting attitudes and drives for the people living along the Mississippi River. The story is engrossing and moves quickly.
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