I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of ... Read More...
James by Percival Everett
I remember almost nothing about the plot of Huckleberry Finn, except it involved a young boy and a slave running away to save their lives and entailed rafting on the Mississippi river. As a Black man ... Read More...
The Trees by Percival Everett
Percival Everett’s novel The Trees is a dark and darkly humorous look deep into the foul, blood-clogged engine of racism. Set in a small Mississippi town locked in the 1950s, the death of two good ole ... Read More...