{"product_id":"huckleberry-jim-9798996345007","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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Publishers Weekly Booklife Editors Pick, Huckleberry Jim is a reckoning with race, guilt, and the bedtime stories America tells itself to sleep at night. For 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\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Workhouse Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996345007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Booklife Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNelson, Adam:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Adam Nelson has lived at the intersection of performance and American storytelling for more than three decades - as an actor, filmmaker, and founder of Workhouse, the New York public relations agency he has run since 1999, representing filmmakers, artists, and cultural institutions. A professor at the New Jersey Film Academy, he is a merit winner of the Writer's Digest International Screenplay Competition. His debut novel, Huckleberry Jim - a BookLife Editor's Pick, longlisted for The Masters Review Novel Excerpt Prize in the top 3% of submissions - draws on his own 1991 tour performing a two-man Huckleberry Finn for schools across the Northeast. It publishes October 6, 2026, during Banned Books Week, with the audiobook simultaneously from Blackstone Publishing.\"","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Adam Nelson \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":67729090838685,"sku":"9798996345007","price":22.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_7557045d-06b6-41ef-83c1-8c9a551cbe49.jpg?v=1792579251","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/huckleberry-jim-9798996345007","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}