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Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. 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Finn"—Jim, the runaway enslaved man. While the concept offered rich potential to reframe and deepen our understanding of this figure, "James" ultimately feels like a missed opportunity. <br><br>Everett seems to rely heavily on readers’ familiarity with "Huck Finn", meaning that if you haven’t recently read (or don’t recall) Twain’s original, much of the impact is lost. Without that context, the story lacks emotional pull and feels, unfortunately, a bit tedious. Instead of fully developing Jim’s character or exploring new facets of his life, the novel leans heavily on revisiting slavery’s brutality—a narrative that, while crucial, can feel repetitive in 2024 when readers are looking for fresh perspectives. <br><br>In the end, "James" reads more like a retelling than a reinvention, bordering on a vanity project that leverages classic literature without pushing any boundaries. This could have been a truly powerful novel, but the execution doesn’t do justice to the potential. It’s a disappointment for fans of Everett’s usually nuanced storytelling and innovative plots. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss4.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275319385" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275319385"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275319385" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275319385" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275319385"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/empman74" target="_top">empman74</a> | Nov 16, 2024 | <a href="/review/275319385"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_275300525" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/30591436" data-workid="30591436" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>The last 10 pages or so were interesting. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss4.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275300525" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275300525"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275300525" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275300525" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275300525"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/joycelas" target="_top">joycelas</a> | Nov 16, 2024 | <a href="/review/275300525"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_275073194" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/30591436" data-workid="30591436" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Excellent book. It is the story of James, the slave that we find fathered Huck Finn. We find that he is a self-taught slave who reads and writes. He has a wife and daughter who all belong to Judge Thatcher. When he learns that he is to be sold, leaves his family and tells them he will return to get them as soon as he is able. Thus begins a story of his struggles along the way to figure out how to get money to buy his family. Huck follows him throughout much of his journey. He goes through Hell and back to find his wife. The story ends with his finding his family and running away towards Canada. An amazing story as seen through the eyes of an enslaved black man from Hannibal, MO. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275073194" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275073194"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275073194" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275073194" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275073194"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/bentstoker" target="_top">bentstoker</a> | Nov 12, 2024 | <a href="/review/275073194"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_266261770" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/30591436" data-workid="30591436" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Clever, ingenious retelling of Huck Finn. Brings to the forefront the misery of slavery that Twain never could. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_266261770" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_266261770"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_266261770" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_266261770" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_266261770"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Doondeck" target="_top">Doondeck</a> | Nov 11, 2024 | <a href="/review/266261770"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_274628466" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/30591436" data-workid="30591436" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385550367.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>One of the best books I have ever read. Everett has managed to meld a white fantasy written by Mark Twain into a stark, troubling and at times even human book about the sin that was slavery. So glad I took a chance on it. The author has left us at the end with the hope that James and his family succeed in their flight for freedom at the same time aware of the great danger that always will be in their future. <br><br>Washington Post Review by Ron Charles<br><br>...It’s worth noting that Huck begins his own story by referring to Mr. Mark Twain with a little metafictional joke: “He told the truth, mainly." <br>...That word “mainly” runs as wide as the Mississippi in the spring. And on the currents of such a stream of possibilities, Percival Everett has now set “James,” his sly response to “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”<br><br>The timing may be accidental, but it couldn’t be better. Our barely United States is once again tearing itself apart over which books should be banned and how African American history should be taught. Meanwhile, “American Fiction,” an adaptation of Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure” — which satirizes the publishing industry’s condescending regard for Black writers — is up for five Academy Awards. What better moment for one of the nation’s preeminent authors to reconceive the nation’s central novel?<br>Sign up for the Book World newsletter from The Washington Post<br>Like Huck, you might think, “I been there before,” but the title, “James,” immediately suggests what Everett is up to with this subversive revision. In these pages, the enslaved man known as Jim can finally declare: “I will not let this condition define me. … My name became my own.”<br>Early in the novel, James acquires a pencil at an unspeakable cost, and he’s not afraid to use it. Stand aside, Mr. Twain. “I wrote myself into being,” James proclaims.<br>Here is the story we thought we knew, told from the point of view of a “man who is cognizant of his world,” a savvy 27-year-old who reads Kierkegaard and can laugh about the tension between “proleptic irony or dramatic irony.” Everett isn’t exactly hitching a ride on Twain’s raft, but he’s moving down the same river, docking at some of the same points while letting others pass by. Meanwhile, the original story’s wit has been recast in a different shade. This is a book haunted by a little boy’s innocence but no longer corralled by it. While “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” lampooned American society through the naiveté of its young narrator, “James” critiques White racism with the sharp insight of a character who’s felt the lash, and who has a wife and child to protect from state-sanctioned torture and rape.<br><br>Everett, who’s been writing for more than 40 years, has wended through terror and humor before. Most notably, in 2021, he published a novel called “The Trees,” which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It’s a merciless comedy about lynching — something I wouldn’t have thought possible before I read it in one wincing day.<br>But the horror gathers gently in “James.” First, Everett moves to reorient these characters in his own moral landscape. “Those white boys, Huck and Tom, watched me,” James says one moonlit night. “They were always playing some kind of pretending game where I was either a villain or prey, but certainly their toy.”<br>No longer.<br>Notice, too, that voice. Rather than merely discard Jim’s dialect, Everett makes it central to the story. Every enslaved person in “James” is essentially bilingual, capable of code switching between the sophisticated English they secretly use among themselves and the shufflin’ vernacular they speak around White people. “Safe movement through the world,” James notes, “depended on mastery of language, fluency.” And so we see him training his daughter how to thank Miss Watson for a piece of her horrible cornbread:<br>“What are you going to say when she asks you about it?”<br>The girl practices: “Miss Watson, dat sum conebread lak I neva before et.”<br>“Try ‘dat be,’” Jim says. “That would be the correct incorrect grammar.”<br>The “correct incorrect grammar” is a perfect metaphor for the rigid but absurd structure of American racism that James contends with. Every situation, he insists, must be carefully engineered to preserve the illusion of Black inferiority. At a nighttime meeting that reads like an HR training session in hell, James explains that Whites’ fragile sense of generosity, justice and ease is constantly threatened by their own brutality and their victims’ humanity. “White folks expect us to sound a certain way and it can only help if we don’t disappoint them,” he says. “The better they feel, the safer we are.”<br>Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up<br>Even if you haven’t read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” since high school, you’ll catch Everett’s reenactments of many scenes from Twain’s novel. But each one has been reset in surprising ways. Here, for instance, it’s not Huck’s fault that a rattlesnake bites James, and in his delirium, under the effects of the venom, James debates the meaning of equality with Voltaire.<br>Later, those familiar scoundrels, the King and the Duke, shoulder their way onto the raft. Everett can do their shtick well, but he keeps them on a shorter leash. That’s partially because James is less impressed by these con men than Huck is, but also because Everett has a firmer control of his plot. This is not a story told by a boy drifting down a river; it’s a story told by a man racing against chaos to retrieve his family.<br>Of course, that means some memorable moments are entirely missing, including anything that Jim doesn’t witness in Twain’s story, like the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. Personally, I can never get enough of Emmeline Grangerford — her maudlin poetry! her spidery portraits! — but as compensation, Everett gives us evocative new incidents, such as James’s stint as a member of a blackface singing group, which is a pitch-perfect example of the author’s contrapuntal satire.<br>Other omissions are more strategic and more telling. Everett dispenses with the inane trip to Phelps’s farm that spoils the end of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Instead, “James” leans in hard on its thriller elements and gathers speed and terror like a swelling storm. Its conclusion is equally shocking and exhilarating.<br>What book has the most disappointing ending?<br>What’s most striking, ultimately, is the way “James” both honors and interrogates “Huck Finn,” along with the nation that reveres it. What does it mean that — in Hemingway’s words — “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn’”? How did we manage to privilege the story of a White boy’s moral insight over the plight of a Black man’s existential peril? For all Twain’s comic genius and social courage, “Huckleberry Finn” allows White readers to talk about slavery while remaining at the center of the story. Like Huck, we can feel warmed by bravely resolving to go to hell for Jim without getting burned.<br>In the opening pages of Everett’s novel, Miss Watson notices something amiss. She asks James, “Have you been in Judge Thatcher’s library room?”<br>“You mean dat room wif all dem books?”<br>“Yes.”<br>James laughs and says, “What I gone do wif a book?”<br>Just wait and see.</div><div id="rfd_274628466" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274628466"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_274628466" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_274628466" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_274628466"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/derailer" target="_top">derailer</a> | Nov 4, 2024 | <a href="/review/274628466"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','30591436','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','30591436','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 1-5 of 79 (<a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',5,0,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','30591436','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','30591436','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_2a97f520', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_2a97f520" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_142ea619_link"><tr><td id="left">2 reviews</td><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'30591436'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> thingScore <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews"><span class="mre_score mre_score_good">100</span></a></td></tr></table><div class="bookReview" mr_id="74793" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_e8c0defe" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_74793" class="commentText"><b>Lasman</b>: Who is Jim in <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>, who is James in your novel, and what is the link between them? How do you connect these characters who share so much but also have quite different experiences across the two books?<br><br><b>Everett</b>: The Jim in Twain’s novel is an important character, and a symbolic character representing slavery, though Twain cautions us not to find any deeper meaning than an adventure story in it. I think that is being coy. Twain would not have been and was not capable of rendering Jim’s story. It was far removed from his experience, though he could have stood witness and did stand witness to many people like Jim. The Huck character suffers familial oppression, which in its way is no different from any other kind of oppression, but it’s still not the same thing as slavery. Huck doesn’t have to worry that when he runs, he will be murdered.<br><br>When I started thinking about the novel, about the fact that Jim’s lack of agency was not a failure but an impossibility, I decided that I needed to give this character some agency.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/elenchus">elenchus</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'74793', 'workid':'30591436'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/calling-it-an-adventure-would-be-redundant-novelist-percival-everett-on-his-explosive-reimagining-of-huckleberry-finn/" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Library of America</span>, <span class="nowrap">Ben Lasman</span></a> <span rawdate="1710907200" class="nowrap">(Mar 20, 2024)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="74788" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_f5f01ec3" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_74788" class="commentText">“My idea of hell would be to live with a library that contained only reimaginings of famous novels,” writes Dwight Garner in his rave review of Percival Everett’s radical new reinterpretation of <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>. “James is the rarest of exceptions. It should come bundled with Twain’s novel. It is a tangled and subversive homage, a labor of rough love.” (from Library of America marketing email)</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/elenchus">elenchus</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'74788', 'workid':'30591436'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/books/review/percival-everett-james.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">New York Times</span>, <span class="nowrap">Dwight Garner</span></a> (pay site) <span rawdate="1710129600" class="nowrap">(Mar 11, 2024)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div></div></div> </div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_56" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><a name="otherauthors"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" 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' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_d2a9c431' itemType='1' itemNum='30591436' fieldType='30' name='u_d2a9c431' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >For Danzy</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_f766362d' itemType='1' itemNum='30591436' fieldType='25' name='u_f766362d' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_112e36f2' itemType='1' itemNum='30591436' fieldType='27' name='u_112e36f2' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I am a sign. I am your future. I am James.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_a4a951b4' itemType='1' itemNum='30591436' fieldType='26' name='u_a4a951b4' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. Content will be hidden unless clicked.' ><div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_ce8b7dea" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >"Just James."</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_ce8b7dea')" id="link_u_ce8b7dea">(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)</a><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_disambiguation"></a>Disambiguation notice</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_8a23e226' itemType='1' itemNum='30591436' fieldType='13' name='u_8a23e226' allowmultiple='0' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'disambiguation' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Clarifications to be used by future combiners and separators, or just as information.' ><div class='fwikiItem divdisambiguation'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_series"></a>Publisher's editors</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_20cda033' itemType='1' itemNum='30591436' fieldType='1' name='u_20cda033' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'literaryeditors' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Publisher's or acquiring editor' ><div class='fwikiItem divliteraryeditors'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_blubers"></a>Blurbers</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_9f71d415' itemType='1' itemNum='30591436' fieldType='29' name='u_9f71d415' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'blurbers' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Who blurbed the book? A blurb is defined as a super-short review, done before the book is published or reviewed professionally. As Rachael Donadio wrote, "Book blurbs are a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith." This field aims to capture that tangle! <b>Note:</b> Please enter only the names of people, not publications. 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Francine</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divblurbers'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Laymon%2C+Kiese&f=29&exact=1&type=1">Laymon, Kiese</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divblurbers'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Garmus%2C+Bonnie&f=29&exact=1&type=1">Garmus, Bonnie</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_656dc649">(<a 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