The luminous, uplifting story of a woman who cooks up a plan to bring her family back together and discovers that love, sharing, and a dash of daring are the secret ingredients that can turn dreams into reality.Ĭamille Broussard can remember a time when she had more pep in her stride and her single-story house was one of the nicest homes in the cozy, well-kept neighborhood of Watts. “This is a moving novel of American slavery and enduring love.”- Booklist I wholeheartedly recommend it.”- Sherman Alexie “This book is a beautiful and powerful re-vision that teaches us to see with new eyes. “In a spare, naturalistic style that’s reminiscent of oral history, Rawles covers territory Twain did not….As heart-wrenching a personal history as any recorded in American literature.”- New York Times Book Review “Rawles’s affecting spin-off of Twain’s classic gives the resilient Sadie Watson a harrowing story and a powerful voice to tell it.”- Entertainment Weekly “ My Jim is a compelling, eloquently written novel that can stand on its own merits beside the great works that inspired it.”- San Francisco Chronicle “A wonderful first-person narrative…both a love story and a chronicle of a brutal time in American history.”- Chicago Tribune
I read some chapters without blinking.“- Ron Charles, Christian Science Monitor And there’s just no escaping his wife’s voice. “Here, finally, is the Jim we can only glimpse between hijinks and humiliations in Huck Finn-a man who’s clever and tender, romantic and tragic.
A nuanced critique of the great American novel, My Jim is a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love. Told with spare eloquence and mirroring the true stories of countless slave women, My Jim recreates one of the most controversial characters in American literature. But Sadie’s will and her love for Jim animate her life and see her through. Sadie is suddenly left alone, worried about her children, reviled as a witch, punished for Jim’s escape, and convinced her husband is dead. Sadie’s Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy named Huck Finn. To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving, Sadie Watson mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim.
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