With humor and unflinching truth-telling, Percival Everett’s “James” reimagines “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man at the story’s heart. Everett uses language as both a weapon and a shield—his characters slip between dialects as a means of survival, resistance and self-definition. Everett’s book has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. https://cbsn.ws/3RUEsFt | CBS Sunday Morning
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With humor and unflinching truth-telling, Percival Everett’s “James” reimagines “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man at the story’s heart. Everett uses language as both a weapon and a shield—his characters slip between dialects as a means of survival, resistance and self-definition. Everett’s book has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. https://cbsn.ws/3RUEsFt | CBS Sunday Morning
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