This novel is so damn good! I’ve never actually read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn so I went into this book blind but I still found it captivating. Jim’s code-switching, planning, dream conversations, and drive are perfect for combatting the frequent depersonalization of enslaved folks. The pacing was steady and the ending was cathartic for me. I don’t know what else to say without giving spoilers!!! 

I had a feeling that Huck was actually Jim’s son from the get-go! I wasn’t expecting that conversation to go the way it did, though. It was heartbreaking that Jim’s white-passing friend had to die in order for him to same Huck. That ending though!!! I’m so glad Jim/James got his moment to fuck up the slave owners and save his family.