{"product_id":"huckleberry-jim-adam-nelson-9798996345038","title":"Huckleberry Jim","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAxel 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarkly funny and unflinching, Huckleberry Jim is a reckoning with race, guilt, and the bedtime stories America tells itself to sleep at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Percival Everett's James and Paul Beatty's The Sellout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996345038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Workhouse Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Adam Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49084353609983,"sku":"9798996345038","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/huckleberry-jim-adam-nelson-9798996345038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}