 and Jim learns that he's going to be sold to another family and he's going to be separated from his own family his wife and his daughter so he runs away and he meets another runaway who is of course Huck Finn and they take this adventure down the Mississippi River but it's told from a totally different perspective Jim is so intelligent he's surprising and there are lots of little twists in this book that keep people guessing as you said Percival Everett really having a moment right now and I think he's created a new classic in retelling this