{"product_id":"huckleberry-jim","title":"Huckleberry Jim","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"descriptionPanel___wCiv7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panelContent___B_vGb\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descriptionPanel___wCiv7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"acc-font-no-hover medium-small-font bold descriptionHeader___aNBPJ\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiGrid-root MuiGrid-container css-1b1jvye\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panelContent___B_vGb\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Workhouse Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50403457892566,"sku":"9798996345007","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8492\/0022\/files\/jim.jpg?v=1789162937","url":"https:\/\/www.riverfrontbooks.com\/products\/huckleberry-jim","provider":"Riverfront Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}