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Adult Books - Fiction - Historical Fiction
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My Jim.
Rawles, Nancy (author).
Jan. 2005. 192p. Crown, hardcover, $19.95 (1-4000-5400-1).
REVIEW.
First published November 15, 2004 (Booklist).
This novel, evocative of slave narratives, explores what life must have been like for Jim, the slave who escapes down the Mississippi River with Huck Finn. But Jim’s flight to freedom is only a backdrop to a story that is more about his wife, Sadie, and her fierce determination to survive the cruelties of slavery and to pass on the hopefulness of love to the next generation. When her granddaughter Marianne is frightened of leaving Louisiana in 1884 to make a new life with a buffalo soldier in the West, Sadie recalls the family’s history as she makes a quilt for the young woman to take with her. Speaking in first-person dialect, Sadie recalls the loss of mother, children, and husband but also recalls the struggle to hold on to bits and pieces of family that she weaves into her story and the quilt. She recalls her talent for healing, her defiance of the master that eventually provoked her sale, and her abiding love for Jim, a slave she saw birthed into the world. This is a moving novel of American slavery and enduring love. — Vanessa Bush
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Features That Discuss This Work:
1. Alex Awards : 2006
2. Booklist Editors' Choice : Adult Books for Young Adults, 2005
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