James

 James by Percival Everett

A companion book - or perhaps the author's setting straight of  - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It begins by following Huck's story as told from the viewpoint of the slave, Jim, then veers off into something very different. 

I didn't enjoy the Huck book or this one either. For one thing, Jim in the first book is a sage - wise, with a rich thought life and unending patience. In this one Jim becomes a cold-blooded murderer, an angry man whose anger, yes, is justified, but not very relatable to who he was in Huck. We are all certainly capable of all kinds of evil we think we aren't, but for me the change here was just too drastic.

I was looking forward to reading about Jim, the only character I liked in the Huck book, but I didn't recognize him in this story.