From the perspective of the enslaved Jim, this masterful, action-packed retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is both terrifying and fiercely humorous.

Jim, who is enslaved, decides to hide on neighbouring Jackson Island until he can come up with a plan after learning that he is going to be sold to a man in New Orleans, permanently separating him from his wife and daughter. Huck Finn, who just came to town, staged his own death in order to get away from his harsh father. Thus starts the perilous and transcendent voyage by raft down the Mississippi River towards the illusive and all too frequently unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond, as all readers of American literature are aware.