Rawles, Nancy, 1958-
My Jim : a novel / by Nancy Rawles. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, c2005. - 174 p. ; 22 cm.
"Written in the great literary tradition of novels of American slavery, My Jim is told in the incantatory voice of Sadie Watson, an ex-slave who schools her granddaughter with lessons of love she learned in bondage. to help her granddaughter confront the decisions she needs to make, Sadie mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie's Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy name Huck. Sadie is suddenly left alone. Worried about her children, convinced her husband is dead, reviled as a witch, and punished for Jim's escape, Sadie's will and her love for Jim, even in absentia, animate her life and see her through." "My Jim re-creates one of the most controversial characters in American literature. A critique of the great American novel, My Jim stands on its own as a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love."--BOOK JACKET.
9781400054015 140005401X (hardcover) 9781428737419 (FollettBound) $17.16.
2004011606
African American families--Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Women slaves--Fiction.
Older women--Fiction.
Freedmen--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Love stories.
My Jim : a novel / by Nancy Rawles. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, c2005. - 174 p. ; 22 cm.
"Written in the great literary tradition of novels of American slavery, My Jim is told in the incantatory voice of Sadie Watson, an ex-slave who schools her granddaughter with lessons of love she learned in bondage. to help her granddaughter confront the decisions she needs to make, Sadie mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie's Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy name Huck. Sadie is suddenly left alone. Worried about her children, convinced her husband is dead, reviled as a witch, and punished for Jim's escape, Sadie's will and her love for Jim, even in absentia, animate her life and see her through." "My Jim re-creates one of the most controversial characters in American literature. A critique of the great American novel, My Jim stands on its own as a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love."--BOOK JACKET.
9781400054015 140005401X (hardcover) 9781428737419 (FollettBound) $17.16.
2004011606
African American families--Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Women slaves--Fiction.
Older women--Fiction.
Freedmen--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Love stories.