Huckleberry Jim, (Audiobook)

<p><b>A darkly funny 1991 road novel about two actors touring a stripped-down <i>Huckleberry Finn</i> through a hostile America--perfect for listeners of Paul Beatty's <i>The Sellout </i>and Percival Everett's <i>James</i>.</b></p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>

• Huckleberry Jim, (Audiobook)
• Author: Adam Nelson
• ISBN: 9798236008990
• Format: Audiobook
• Publication Date: 2026-10-06
• Page Count: 0