Results for “history”

Adult

Percival Everett

A reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold away from his wife and daughter, he runs — and the raft journey down the Mississippi becomes his story of language, literacy, and who gets to be the narrator.

Adult

Octavia E. Butler

On her twenty-sixth birthday, Dana is pulled from 1976 California to an antebellum Maryland plantation to save a drowning white boy — the ancestor she must keep alive so she can be born. Time travel makes slavery a present-tense problem she cannot theorize from a safe distance.